linux-kernel - [PATCH] tty: drop useless variable initialisation in tty

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Message-Id: <20191217075040.8020-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Date:   Tue, 17 Dec 2019 08:50:40 +0100
From:   Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: [PATCH] tty: drop useless variable initialisation in tty_kopen()

The driver variable is assigned to unconditionally and not used before.
So there is no need to explicitly initialize it at the start of
tty_kopen().

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
---
 drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index d9f54c7d94f2..a1453fe10862 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1892,9 +1892,9 @@ static struct tty_driver *tty_lookup_driver(dev_t device, struct file *filp,
  */
 struct tty_struct *tty_kopen(dev_t device)
 {
 	struct tty_struct *tty;
-	struct tty_driver *driver = NULL;
+	struct tty_driver *driver;
 	int index = -1;
 
 	mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
 	driver = tty_lookup_driver(device, NULL, &index);
-- 
2.24.0