Re: [PATCH] platform: x86: dell-smo8800: remove redundant assignments to byte_data

[Pali RohÃr]

On Tuesday 31 October 2017 15:47:58 Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Variable byte_data is being initialized and re-assigned with values that
> > are never read. Remove these as these redundant assignments. Cleans up
> > clang warning:
> >
> > drivers/platform/x86/dell-smo8800.c:106:2: warning: Value stored to 'byte_data'
> > is never read
> 
> Thanks for the patch.
> 
> As I read a code it was from the beginning like this. I dunno what was
> a motivation of this pieces, thus I would like to hear Pali.

IIRC this part of code comes from the lis3lv* driver which was used for
HP EliteBook machines. As both drivers provides similar interface for
userspace.

> Per se patch looks pretty much good to me.
> 

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Pali RohÃr
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