linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] infiniband: remove redundant assignment to pointer 'rdi'

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Message-ID: <20180306233419.GA8328@ziepe.ca>
Date:   Tue, 6 Mar 2018 16:34:19 -0700
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@...el.com>,
        Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@...el.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] infiniband: remove redundant assignment to pointer 'rdi'

On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 04:23:54PM +0000, Colin Ian King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The pointer rdi is being initialized with a value that is never read
> and re-assigned immediately after, hence the initialization is redundant
> and can be removed.
> 
> Cleans up clang warning:
> drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/vt.c:94:23: warning: Value stored to 'rdi'
> during its initialization is never read
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>  drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/vt.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

applied to for-next, thanks

Jason