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

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Date:   Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:52:12 +0000
From:   Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.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 11/12/2018 09:48, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 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?

If I recall correctly, cppcheck, but I may be wrong, I use several
different tools.

> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>