linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] scsi: megaraid: remove redundant assignment to variable retval

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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 21:26:59 -0500
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@...adcom.com>,
        Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@...adcom.com>,
        Shivasharan S <shivasharan.srikanteshwara@...adcom.com>,
        Chandrakanth patil <chandrakanth.patil@...adcom.com>,
        "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        megaraidlinux.pdl@...adcom.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
Cc: "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] scsi: megaraid: remove redundant assignment to variable retval

On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 12:14:41 +0000, Colin Ian King wrote:

> The variable retval is being assigned a value that is not being
> read afterwards. The assignment is redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Cleans up clang scan warning:
> Although the value stored to 'retval' is used in the enclosing
> expression, the value is never actually read from 'retval'
> [deadcode.DeadStores]
> 
> [...]

Applied to 6.9/scsi-queue, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: megaraid: remove redundant assignment to variable retval
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/9759cdc1bcb8

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering