Re: [PATCH] staging: ks7010: Remove initialisation

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Fri May 24 2019 - 03:07:31 EST


On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 11:22:38AM +0530, Nishka Dasgupta wrote:
> The initial value of return variable ret is never used, so it can be
> removed.
> Issue found with Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nishka Dasgupta <nishkadg.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
> index e089366ed02a..3775fd4b89ae 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
> @@ -1067,7 +1067,7 @@ int hostif_data_request(struct ks_wlan_private *priv, struct sk_buff *skb)
> unsigned int length = 0;
> struct hostif_data_request *pp;
> unsigned char *p;
> - int result = 0;
> + int result;

You should get rid of the result variable completely and just use "ret"
instead. No need for two variables.

regards,
dan carpenter