Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: usbdux: remove redundant initialization of val

[Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>]

On 07/11/17 19:07, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> The early initialization of val is redundant as the value is never
> read and is updated inside a for-loop. Remove the initialization
> and move the declaration and initialization to the for-loop scope.
> Cleans up clang warning:
> 
> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c:812:15: warning: Value stored
> to 'val' during its initialization is never read
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c | 3 +--
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c
> index f4f05d29d30d..ede064b47aac 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c
> @@ -809,7 +809,6 @@ static int usbdux_ao_insn_write(struct comedi_device *dev,
>   {
>   	struct usbdux_private *devpriv = dev->private;
>   	unsigned int chan = CR_CHAN(insn->chanspec);
> -	unsigned int val = s->readback[chan];
>   	__le16 *p = (__le16 *)&devpriv->dux_commands[2];
>   	int ret = -EBUSY;
>   	int i;
> @@ -825,7 +824,7 @@ static int usbdux_ao_insn_write(struct comedi_device *dev,
>   	devpriv->dux_commands[4] = chan << 6;
>   
>   	for (i = 0; i < insn->n; i++) {
> -		val = data[i];
> +		unsigned int val = data[i];
>   
>   		/* one 16 bit value */
>   		*p = cpu_to_le16(val);
> 

Thanks for catching that.  It looks like it has been redundant since 
commit 65a847477f63 ("staging: comedi: usbdux: use comedi_subdevice 
'readback'").

Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>

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