linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: pm80xx: remove redundant assignments to variable rc

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Date:   Thu, 1 Aug 2019 09:07:33 +0200
From:   Jinpu Wang <jinpu.wang@...ud.ionos.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Linux SCSI Mailinglist <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: pm80xx: remove redundant assignments to variable rc

On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 12:22 AM Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
>
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>
> There are several occasions where variable rc is being initialized
> with a value that is never read and error is being re-assigned a
> little later on.  Clean up the code by removing rc entirely and
> just returning the return value from the call to pm8001_issue_ssp_tmf
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Acked-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@...ud.ionos.com>

Thanks, Colin.