From 8dff0ee449cb055782da3a9a67d1d569164c2bc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@home-assistant.io>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 09:25:23 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Remove redundant early guard

---
 esphome/components/nextion/nextion.cpp | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/esphome/components/nextion/nextion.cpp b/esphome/components/nextion/nextion.cpp
index aa01914729..56bbc840fb 100644
--- a/esphome/components/nextion/nextion.cpp
+++ b/esphome/components/nextion/nextion.cpp
@@ -397,14 +397,8 @@ bool Nextion::remove_from_q_(bool report_empty) {
 }
 
 void Nextion::process_serial_() {
-  // All current UART available() implementations return >= 0,
-  // use <= 0 to future-proof against any that may return negative on error.
-  int avail = this->available();
-  if (avail <= 0) {
-    return;
-  }
-
   // Read all available bytes in batches to reduce UART call overhead.
+  int avail = this->available();
   uint8_t buf[64];
   while (avail > 0) {
     size_t to_read = std::min(static_cast<size_t>(avail), sizeof(buf));