[PATCH] remoteproc: mtk_scp: remove unnecessary checking

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at linaro.org
Wed Oct 22 04:05:28 PDT 2025


The kernel implementation of snprintf() cannot return negative error
codes.  Also these particular calls to snprintf() can't return zero
and the code to handle a zero return is sort of questionable.  Just
delete this impossible code.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>
---
 drivers/remoteproc/mtk_scp.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/mtk_scp.c b/drivers/remoteproc/mtk_scp.c
index 10e3f9eb8cd2..9b624948a572 100644
--- a/drivers/remoteproc/mtk_scp.c
+++ b/drivers/remoteproc/mtk_scp.c
@@ -1127,11 +1127,9 @@ static const char *scp_get_default_fw_path(struct device *dev, int core_id)
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
 	if (core_id >= 0)
-		ret = snprintf(scp_fw_file, ARRAY_SIZE(scp_fw_file), "scp_c%1d", core_id);
+		snprintf(scp_fw_file, ARRAY_SIZE(scp_fw_file), "scp_c%1d", core_id);
 	else
-		ret = snprintf(scp_fw_file, ARRAY_SIZE(scp_fw_file), "scp");
-	if (ret <= 0)
-		return ERR_PTR(ret);
+		snprintf(scp_fw_file, ARRAY_SIZE(scp_fw_file), "scp");
 
 	/* Not using strchr here, as strlen of a const gets optimized by compiler */
 	soc = &compatible[strlen("mediatek,")];
-- 
2.51.0




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