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Message-Id: <E1qWxjI-0056nx-CU@rmk-PC.armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 12:33:24 +0100
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
To: Iyappan Subramanian <iyappan@...amperecomputing.com>,
	Keyur Chudgar <keyur@...amperecomputing.com>,
	Quan Nguyen <quan@...amperecomputing.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: mdio: xgene: remove useless xgene_mdio_status

xgene_mdio_status is declared static, and is only written once by the
driver. It appears to have been this way since the driver was first
added to the kernel tree. No other users can be found, so let's remove
it.

Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
---
 drivers/net/mdio/mdio-xgene.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-xgene.c b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-xgene.c
index 1af7a4d9f86c..1190a793555a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-xgene.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-xgene.c
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@
 #include <linux/prefetch.h>
 #include <net/ip.h>
 
-static bool xgene_mdio_status;
-
 u32 xgene_mdio_rd_mac(struct xgene_mdio_pdata *pdata, u32 rd_addr)
 {
 	void __iomem *addr, *rd, *cmd, *cmd_done;
@@ -421,7 +419,6 @@ static int xgene_mdio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		goto out_mdiobus;
 
 	pdata->mdio_bus = mdio_bus;
-	xgene_mdio_status = true;
 
 	return 0;
 
-- 
2.30.2