Re: [PATCH] leds: trigger: timer: remove redundant assignment to ret

[Pavel Machek]

On Sun 2019-08-18 20:00:03, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Variable ret is initialized to a value that is never read and it
> is re-assigned later. The initialization is redundant and can be
> removed.

Yes, it can. But it is not buggy or exceptionaly ugly.

> diff --git a/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-timer.c b/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-timer.c
> index 34a68604c46c..b4688d1d9d2b 100644
> --- a/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-timer.c
> +++ b/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-timer.c
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static ssize_t led_delay_on_store(struct device *dev,
>  {
>  	struct led_classdev *led_cdev = led_trigger_get_led(dev);
>  	unsigned long state;
> -	ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
> +	ssize_t ret;
>  
>  	ret = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &state);
>  	if (ret)

Make it ssizr_t ret = kstrtoul() and I may agree it is a cleanup...

Best regards,
									Pavel

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