linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][clk-next] clk: imx: remove redundant initialization of ret to zero

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Message-ID: <20181211094812.GB3116@kadam>
Date:   Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:48:12 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@....com>,
        NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][clk-next] clk: imx: remove redundant initialization of
 ret to zero

On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 03:08:32PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The initialization of ret is redundant as it is being re-assigned to
> the return value from the call to imx8m_clk_composite_compute_dividers.
> Clean this up by removing the initialization.
> 

Just curious, is there a static checker which complains about this as
dead code?

regards,
dan carpenter