linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: remove redundant assignment to ret

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Date:   Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:48:38 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Vatsala Narang <vatsalanarang@...il.com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: remove redundant assignment to ret

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Variable ret is initialized to a value that is never read and it is
re-assigned later. The initialization is redundant and can be removed.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_io.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_io.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_io.c
index a92bc19b196a..57168578663a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_io.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_io.c
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ u32 _rtw_write_port(struct adapter *adapter, u32 addr, u32 cnt, u8 *pmem)
 	u32 (*_write_port)(struct intf_hdl *pintfhdl, u32 addr, u32 cnt, u8 *pmem);
 	struct io_priv *pio_priv = &adapter->iopriv;
 	struct	intf_hdl		*pintfhdl = &(pio_priv->intf);
-	u32 ret = _SUCCESS;
+	u32 ret;
 
 	_write_port = pintfhdl->io_ops._write_port;
 
-- 
2.20.1