linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] ivtv: Remove a invalid shadow-variable

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Date:	Sun, 2 Dec 2007 18:47:01 +0100 (MET)
From:	Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se>
To:	hverkuil@...all.nl, mchehab@...radead.org
Cc:	v4l-dvb-maintainer@...uxtv.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ivtv: Remove a invalid shadow-variable

Remove the shadowing 'struct v4l2_chip_ident *chip', since it already exists
and makes the if-statement useless.

Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se>
---
Compile-tested on i386 with "allyesconfig" and "allmodconfig".


diff --git a/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-ioctl.c b/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-ioctl.c
index fd6826f..874aa22 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-ioctl.c
@@ -660,11 +660,8 @@ static int ivtv_debug_ioctls(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, void *arg)
 		chip->ident = V4L2_IDENT_NONE;
 		chip->revision = 0;
 		if (reg->match_type == V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_HOST) {
-			if (v4l2_chip_match_host(reg->match_type, reg->match_chip)) {
-				struct v4l2_chip_ident *chip = arg;
-
+			if (v4l2_chip_match_host(reg->match_type, reg->match_chip))
 				chip->ident = itv->has_cx23415 ? V4L2_IDENT_CX23415 : V4L2_IDENT_CX23416;
-			}
 			return 0;
 		}
 		if (reg->match_type == V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_I2C_DRIVER)
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