[PATCH *-next 00/18] Remove weird and needless 'return' for void APIs

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:02:05 -0800
Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu at quicinc.com> wrote:

> This patch series is to remove weird and needless 'return' for
> void APIs under include/ with the following pattern:
> 
> api_header.h:
> 
> void api_func_a(...);
> 
> static inline void api_func_b(...)
> {
> 	return api_func_a(...);
> }
> 
> Remove the needless 'return' in api_func_b().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu at quicinc.com>
> ---
> Zijun Hu (18):
>       mm/mmu_gather: Remove needless return in void API tlb_remove_page()
>       cpu: Remove needless return in void API suspend_enable_secondary_cpus()
>       crypto: api - Remove needless return in void API crypto_free_tfm()
>       crypto: scomp - Remove needless return in void API crypto_scomp_free_ctx()
>       sysfs: Remove needless return in void API sysfs_enable_ns()
>       skbuff: Remove needless return in void API consume_skb()
>       wifi: mac80211: Remove needless return in void API _ieee80211_hw_set()
>       net: sched: Remove needless return in void API qdisc_watchdog_schedule_ns()
>       ipv4/igmp: Remove needless return in void API ip_mc_dec_group()
>       IB/rdmavt: Remove needless return in void API rvt_mod_retry_timer()
>       ratelimit: Remove needless return in void API ratelimit_default_init()
>       siox: Remove needless return in void API siox_driver_unregister()
>       gpiolib: Remove needless return in two void APIs
>       PM: wakeup: Remove needless return in three void APIs
>       mfd: db8500-prcmu: Remove needless return in three void APIs
>       rhashtable: Remove needless return in three void APIs
>       dma-mapping: Remove needless return in five void APIs
>       mtd: nand: Do not return void function in void function
> 
>  include/asm-generic/tlb.h           |  2 +-
>  include/crypto/internal/scompress.h |  2 +-
>  include/linux/cpu.h                 |  2 +-
>  include/linux/crypto.h              |  2 +-
>  include/linux/dma-mapping.h         | 12 ++++++------
>  include/linux/gpio.h                |  4 ++--
>  include/linux/igmp.h                |  2 +-
>  include/linux/mfd/dbx500-prcmu.h    |  6 +++---
>  include/linux/mtd/nand.h            | 18 ++++++++++++------
>  include/linux/pm_wakeup.h           |  6 +++---
>  include/linux/ratelimit.h           |  4 ++--
>  include/linux/rhashtable.h          |  6 +++---
>  include/linux/siox.h                |  2 +-
>  include/linux/skbuff.h              |  2 +-
>  include/linux/sysfs.h               |  2 +-
>  include/net/mac80211.h              |  2 +-
>  include/net/pkt_sched.h             |  2 +-
>  include/rdma/rdmavt_qp.h            |  2 +-
>  18 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 2014c95afecee3e76ca4a56956a936e23283f05b
> change-id: 20250221-rmv_return-f1dc82d492f0
> 
> Best regards,

Is this something that could be done with a coccinelle script?