linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: remove redundant assignment to variable ret

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Message-Id: <20200409.101529.1142140564221269589.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 09 Apr 2020 10:15:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: remove redundant assignment to variable ret

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Thu,  9 Apr 2020 14:41:26 +0100

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

Applied, thank you.