Re: [PATCH v2] rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Remove variable self-assignment in rf.c

[Larry Finger]

On 02/08/2018 06:57 PM, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> In _rtl92c_get_txpower_writeval_by_regulatory() the variable writeVal
> is assigned to itself in an if ... else statement, apparently only to
> document that the branch condition is handled and that a previously read
> value should be returned unmodified. The self-assignment causes clang to
> raise the following warning:
>
> drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/rf.c:304:13:
>    error: explicitly assigning value of variable of type 'u32'
>      (aka 'unsigned int') to itself [-Werror,-Wself-assign]
>    writeVal = writeVal;
>
> Delete the branch with the self-assignment.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Delete the 'else if' branch entirely
>
>   drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/rf.c | 3 ---
>   1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/rf.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/rf.c
> index 9cff6bc4049c..cf551785eb08 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/rf.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/rf.c
> @@ -299,9 +299,6 @@ static void _rtl92c_get_txpower_writeval_by_regulatory(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
>   			writeVal = 0x00000000;
>   		if (rtlpriv->dm.dynamic_txhighpower_lvl == TXHIGHPWRLEVEL_BT1)
>   			writeVal = writeVal - 0x06060606;
> -		else if (rtlpriv->dm.dynamic_txhighpower_lvl ==
> -			 TXHIGHPWRLEVEL_BT2)
> -			writeVal = writeVal;
>   		*(p_outwriteval + rf) = writeVal;
>   	}
>   }