linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: jme: remove unused initialization of 'rxdesc'

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Message-Id: <20180201.145444.1341243515146963119.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:54:44 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:     cooldavid@...ldavid.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: jme: remove unused initialization of 'rxdesc'

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Thu,  1 Feb 2018 16:58:42 +0000

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Pointer rxdesc is assigned a value that is never read, it is overwritten
> by a new assignment inside a while loop hence the initial assignment
> is redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Cleans up clang warning:
> drivers/net/ethernet/jme.c:1074:17: warning: Value stored to 'rxdesc'
> during its initialization is never read
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied.