linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/6] [media] tda8261: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in tda8261

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Date:   Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:32:26 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] [media] tda8261: Delete an unnecessary variable
 initialisation in tda8261_attach()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:24:57 +0200

The local variable "state" is reassigned by a statement at the beginning.
Thus omit the explicit initialisation.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/tda8261.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/tda8261.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/tda8261.c
index e3b4183d00c2..492d8c03a5fa 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/tda8261.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/tda8261.c
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ struct dvb_frontend *tda8261_attach(struct dvb_frontend *fe,
 				    const struct tda8261_config *config,
 				    struct i2c_adapter *i2c)
 {
-	struct tda8261_state *state = NULL;
+	struct tda8261_state *state;
 
 	state = kzalloc(sizeof(*state), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!state)
-- 
2.14.1