linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mmc: wbsd: remove redundant assignment to variable id

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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 12:18:12 +0100
From: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
To: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <pierre@...man.eu>, linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org, 
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: wbsd: remove redundant assignment to variable id

On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 at 20:13, Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com> wrote:
>
> The variable id is being initialized with a value that is never
> read, it is being re-assigned later on. The initialization is
> redundant and can be removed.
>
> Cleans up clang scan build warning:
> drivers/mmc/host/wbsd.c:1287:4: warning: Value stored to 'id'
> is never read [deadcode.DeadStores]
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mmc/host/wbsd.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/wbsd.c b/drivers/mmc/host/wbsd.c
> index 001a468bc149..f0562f712d98 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/wbsd.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/wbsd.c
> @@ -1284,8 +1284,6 @@ static int wbsd_scan(struct wbsd_host *host)
>                         continue;
>
>                 for (j = 0; j < ARRAY_SIZE(unlock_codes); j++) {
> -                       id = 0xFFFF;
> -
>                         host->config = config_ports[i];
>                         host->unlock_code = unlock_codes[j];

A few lines down there is check "if (id != 0xFFFF)". Looks like that
is a redundant check. Would you mind cleaning up that part too, as a
part of the $subject patch?

Kind regards
Uffe