linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net/ipv6: remove unused err variable on icmpv6_push_pending

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Date:   Thu, 05 Oct 2017 22:18:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     devtimhansen@...il.com
Cc:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        alexander.levin@....verizon.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ipv6: remove unused err variable on
 icmpv6_push_pending_frames

From: Tim Hansen <devtimhansen@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 15:45:32 -0400

> int err is unused by icmpv6_push_pending_frames(), this patch returns removes the variable and returns the function with 0.
> 
> git bisect shows this variable has been around since linux has been in git in commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2.  
> 
> This was found by running make coccicheck M=net/ipv6/ on linus' tree on commit 77ede3a014a32746002f7889211f0cecf4803163 (current HEAD as of this patch).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tim Hansen <devtimhansen@...il.com>

Applied.