linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: remove redundant assignment to variable err

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Date:   Sat, 17 Apr 2021 17:29:44 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@...ltek.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: remove redundant assignment to variable err

Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Variable err is assigned -ENODEV followed by an error return path
> via label error_out that does not access the variable and returns
> with the -ENODEV error return code. The assignment to err is
> redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

87431bc1f0f6 rtlwifi: remove redundant assignment to variable err

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20210327230014.25554-1-colin.king@canonical.com/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches