linux-kernel - [PATCH] hwmon: (sht15): remove redundant check on status and send of status value

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Date:   Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:45:48 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] hwmon: (sht15): remove redundant check on status and send of status value

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

A previous commit removed bit or'ing into to the integer status
so now status is now always zero. This means that the non-zero check on
status and the sht15_send_status call will never occur; it is deadcode.
Clean this up by removing the dead code.

Detected by: CoverityScan CID#1456835 ("Logically dead code")

Fixes: aa7ab80c578c ("hwmon: (sht15) Root out platform data")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/hwmon/sht15.c | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/sht15.c b/drivers/hwmon/sht15.c
index 0e3e5f83f5cf..25d28343ba93 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/sht15.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/sht15.c
@@ -925,7 +925,6 @@ static int sht15_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	int ret;
 	struct sht15_data *data;
-	u8 status = 0;
 
 	data = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!data)
@@ -1002,13 +1001,6 @@ static int sht15_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (ret)
 		goto err_release_reg;
 
-	/* write status with platform data options */
-	if (status) {
-		ret = sht15_send_status(data, status);
-		if (ret)
-			goto err_release_reg;
-	}
-
 	ret = sysfs_create_group(&pdev->dev.kobj, &sht15_attr_group);
 	if (ret) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "sysfs create failed\n");
-- 
2.14.1