Hello,

[adding Andy and Rafael to Cc:]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 04:11:32PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> The pointer pwm is being initialized with a value that is never read and
> it is being updated later with a new value. The initialization is
> redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pwm/core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pwm/core.c b/drivers/pwm/core.c
> index a28c8639af5b..35e894f4a379 100644
> --- a/drivers/pwm/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/pwm/core.c
> @@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_pwm_get);
>   */
>  static struct pwm_device *acpi_pwm_get(const struct fwnode_handle *fwnode)
>  {
> -	struct pwm_device *pwm = ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> +	struct pwm_device *pwm;
>  	struct fwnode_reference_args args;
>  	struct pwm_chip *chip;
>  	int ret;

LGTM:

Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

and if you want:

Fixes: e5c38ba9f281 ("pwm: core: Reuse fwnode_to_pwmchip() in ACPI case")

Best regards
Uwe

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