linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: net: wimax: i2400m: fw: remove redundant initialization of variable result

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Message-ID: <4feb2701856a0a05ce22f27adf1ade679695cfe5.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Thu, 28 Jan 2021 12:51:35 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: net: wimax: i2400m: fw: remove redundant
 initialization of variable result

On Thu, 2021-01-28 at 17:37 +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The variable result 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.

Isn't WIMAX dead?  Shouldn't it be marked ORPHAN in MAINTAINERS?
---
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index caac09a3c5c9..922afd393cb6 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -19201,6 +19201,10 @@ S:     Supported
 W:	https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/wil6210
 F:	drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/
 
+WIMAX
+S:	Orphan
+F:	drivers/staging/wimax/
+
 WINBOND CIR DRIVER
 M:	David Härdeman <david@...deman.nu>
 S:	Maintained