From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de&gt; gcc warns about an empty body in an else statement: drivers/dax/bus.c: In function 'do_id_store': drivers/dax/bus.c:94:48: error: suggest braces around empty body in an 'else' statement [-Werror=empty-body] 94 | /* nothing to remove */; | ^ drivers/dax/bus.c:99:43: error: suggest braces around empty body in an 'else' statement [-Werror=empty-body] 99 | /* dax_id already added */; | ^ In both of these cases, the 'else' exists only to have a place to add a comment, but that comment doesn't really explain that much either, so the easiest way to shut up that warning is to just remove the else. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de&gt; --- drivers/dax/bus.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/dax/bus.c b/drivers/dax/bus.c index 452e85ae87a8..5aee26e1bbd6 100644 --- a/drivers/dax/bus.c +++ b/drivers/dax/bus.c @@ -90,13 +90,11 @@ static ssize_t do_id_store(struct device_driver *drv, const char *buf, list_add(&dax_id->list, &dax_drv->ids); } else rc = -ENOMEM; - } else - /* nothing to remove */; + } } else if (action == ID_REMOVE) { list_del(&dax_id->list); kfree(dax_id); - } else - /* dax_id already added */; + } mutex_unlock(&dax_bus_lock); if (rc < 0) -- 2.29.2