Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] EDAC: mv64x60: remove unused variable

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 08:31:33PM +1200, Chris Packham wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/edac/mv64x60_edac.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/edac/mv64x60_edac.c b/drivers/edac/mv64x60_edac.c
> index 14b7e7b71eaa..454e1e26ee7c 100644
> --- a/drivers/edac/mv64x60_edac.c
> +++ b/drivers/edac/mv64x60_edac.c
> @@ -853,8 +853,6 @@ static struct platform_driver * const drivers[] = {
>  
>  static int __init mv64x60_edac_init(void)
>  {
> -	int ret = 0;
> -
>  	printk(KERN_INFO "Marvell MV64x60 EDAC driver " MV64x60_REVISION "\n");
>  	printk(KERN_INFO "\t(C) 2006-2007 MontaVista Software\n");
>  	/* make sure error reporting method is sane */
> -- 

Looks like the logic behind that ret variable is to catch the retval of
platform_register_drivers() and test it to return early. And then issue
the printks and assign edac_op_state only in the success case.

Please do that instead.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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