Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: remove redundant assignment to rtStatus

From: Colin Ian King
Date: Mon Jun 17 2019 - 09:13:03 EST


On 17/06/2019 13:47, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Variable rtStatus is initialized with a value that is never read
> and later it is reassigned a new value. Hence the initialization
> is redundant and can be removed.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723b_hal_init.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723b_hal_init.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723b_hal_init.c
> index 21f2365fa627..bda19769c37f 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723b_hal_init.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723b_hal_init.c
> @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ void rtl8723b_FirmwareSelfReset(struct adapter *padapter)
> /* */
> s32 rtl8723b_FirmwareDownload(struct adapter *padapter, bool bUsedWoWLANFw)
> {
> - s32 rtStatus = _SUCCESS;
> + s32 rtStatus;
> u8 write_fw = 0;
> unsigned long fwdl_start_time;
> struct hal_com_data *pHalData = GET_HAL_DATA(padapter);
>

Actually, ignore this, the driver has lots more of these that need
cleaning up, I'll send a V2 with all the fixups later.

Colin