Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: drivers: mite: Removed variables that is never used

From: Ian Abbott
Date: Thu Jan 29 2015 - 10:56:47 EST


On 28/01/15 22:36, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
Variable ar assigned a value that is never used.
I have also removed all the code that thereby serves no purpose.

This was found using a static code analysis program called cppcheck

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/mite.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/mite.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/mite.c
index ffc9e61..8d2903b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/mite.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/mite.c
@@ -494,9 +494,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mite_bytes_read_from_memory_ub);
unsigned mite_dma_tcr(struct mite_channel *mite_chan)
{
struct mite_struct *mite = mite_chan->mite;
- int lkar;

- lkar = readl(mite->mite_io_addr + MITE_LKAR(mite_chan->channel));
+ readl(mite->mite_io_addr + MITE_LKAR(mite_chan->channel));
return readl(mite->mite_io_addr + MITE_TCR(mite_chan->channel));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mite_dma_tcr);


Reading the MITE_LKAR(channel) register won't have any side-effects, so that call to readl() can be removed altogether. In previous versions of the driver, the value of lkar was only used in debugging messages.

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