linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] pinctrl: ocelot: remove redundant assignment to variable ret

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdaPxGX249Uu5GsP79+ga2=k40u2+oeGUYpEaXAnh4+F0g@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:38:31 +0100
From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
Cc: linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] pinctrl: ocelot: remove redundant assignment to
 variable ret

On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 5:28 PM Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com> wrote:

> The variable ret is being assigned a value that is never read, it
> is being re-assigned a value in every case statement in the following
> switch statement. The assignment is redundant and can be removed.
>
> Cleans up clang scan build warning:
> drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-ocelot.c:1404:3: warning: Value stored to 'ret'
> is never read [deadcode.DeadStores]
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>

Patch applied!

Yours,
Linus Walleij