linux-kernel - [PATCH] regulator: max8660: remove redundant assignment of variable ret

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Date:   Tue, 13 Aug 2019 14:31:14 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] regulator: max8660: remove redundant assignment of variable ret

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

Variable ret is initialized to a value that is never read before
a return statement and hence can be removed. Remove it.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/regulator/max8660.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/regulator/max8660.c b/drivers/regulator/max8660.c
index 4bca54446287..347043a5a9a7 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/max8660.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/max8660.c
@@ -485,7 +485,6 @@ static int max8660_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 		rdev = devm_regulator_register(&client->dev,
 						  &max8660_reg[id], &config);
 		if (IS_ERR(rdev)) {
-			ret = PTR_ERR(rdev);
 			dev_err(&client->dev, "failed to register %s\n",
 				max8660_reg[id].name);
 			return PTR_ERR(rdev);
-- 
2.20.1