linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] drm/amd/display: remove redundant assignment to variable ret

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Date:   Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:31:02 -0400
From:   Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@...il.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@....com>,
        Leo Li <sunpeng.li@....com>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        David Zhou <David1.Zhou@....com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Wenjing Liu <wenjing.liu@....com>,
        amd-gfx list <amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Maling list - DRI developers 
        <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] drm/amd/display: remove redundant assignment to
 variable ret

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:18 AM Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
>
> 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.  Thanks!

Alex

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link_dp.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link_dp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link_dp.c
> index d5b306384d79..9ef9e50a34fa 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link_dp.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link_dp.c
> @@ -4231,7 +4231,7 @@ void dpcd_set_source_specific_data(struct dc_link *link)
>  {
>         const uint32_t post_oui_delay = 30; // 30ms
>         uint8_t dspc = 0;
> -       enum dc_status ret = DC_ERROR_UNEXPECTED;
> +       enum dc_status ret;
>
>         ret = core_link_read_dpcd(link, DP_DOWN_STREAM_PORT_COUNT, &dspc,
>                                   sizeof(dspc));
> --
> 2.25.1
>
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