linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: remove redundant assignment to variable bufsz

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Message-ID: <df4c42b44950c8d145479ade68786335f9d0526c.camel@coelho.fi>
Date:   Fri, 23 Aug 2019 08:10:52 +0300
From:   Luca Coelho <luca@...lho.fi>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
        Intel Linux Wireless <linuxwifi@...el.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: remove redundant assignment to variable bufsz

On Thu, 2019-08-01 at 17:44 +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The variable bufsz is being initialized with a value that is never
> read and it is being updated later with a new value. The
> initialization is redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> ---

Thanks! I applied this to our internal tree and it will reach the
mainline following our usual upstreaming process.

--
Cheers,
Luca.