The ternary operator is checking if ret is less than zero inside an
if block that also checks if ret is less than zero. Since the nested
ternary statement is always true then the -EIO return is never
executed and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_helper.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_helper.c
index 56c7e3318f01..155b4baf6ab5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_helper.c
@@ -4192,7 +4192,7 @@ drm_edp_backlight_probe_state(struct drm_dp_aux *aux, struct drm_edp_backlight_i
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		drm_dbg_kms(aux->drm_dev, "%s: Failed to read backlight mode: %d\n",
 			    aux->name, ret);
-		return ret < 0 ? ret : -EIO;
+		return ret;
 	}
 
 	*current_mode = (mode_reg & DP_EDP_BACKLIGHT_CONTROL_MODE_MASK);
-- 
2.49.0