netdev - Re: [PATCH] lan78xx: remove redundant initialization of pointer 'phydev'

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Message-Id: <20180201.145450.930634145855259446.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:54:50 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:     woojung.huh@...rochip.com, UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lan78xx: remove redundant initialization of pointer
 'phydev'

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Thu,  1 Feb 2018 17:10:18 +0000

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Pointer phydev is initialized and this value is never read, phydev
> is immediately updated to a new value, hence this initialization
> is redundant and can be removed
> 
> Cleans up clang warning:
> drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c:2009:21: warning: Value stored to 'phydev'
> during its initialization is never read
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied.