linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] HID: sony: remove redundant assignment to variable ret

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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:56:31 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
cc: Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@...nel.org>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org, 
    kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] HID: sony: remove redundant assignment to variable
 ret

On Thu, 28 Mar 2024, Colin Ian King wrote:

> The variable ret is being assigned a value that is never read
> afterwards. The assignment is redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Cleans up clang scan build warning:
> drivers/hid/hid-sony.c:2020:3: warning: Value stored to 'ret'
> is never read [deadcode.DeadStores]

That assignment is indeed bogus. Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs