linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: block2mtd: remove redundant initialization of 'bdev'

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Date:   Sun, 18 Mar 2018 22:21:19 +0100
From:   Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Joern Engel <joern@...ybastard.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@...ev4u.fr>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: block2mtd: remove redundant initialization of
 'bdev'

On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 22:09:34 +0000
Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Pointer bdev is being initialized however this value is never
> read as bdev is assigned an updated value from the returned
> call to blkdev_get_by_path.  Remove the redundant assignment.
> 
> Cleans up clang warning:
> drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c:228:23: warning: Value stored to
> 'bdev' during its initialization is never read
> 

Applied.

Thanks,

Boris

> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c
> index 62fd6905c648..bb0734600a07 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c
> @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ static struct block2mtd_dev *add_device(char *devname, int erase_size,
>  	int i;
>  #endif
>  	const fmode_t mode = FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE | FMODE_EXCL;
> -	struct block_device *bdev = ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> +	struct block_device *bdev;
>  	struct block2mtd_dev *dev;
>  	char *name;
>  



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Boris Brezillon, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com