Re: [PATCH] staging: xgifb: vb_init: Removed variables that is never used

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat Jan 31 2015 - 23:36:38 EST


On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 04:20:48PM +0100, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> Variable was assigned a value that was 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/xgifb/vb_init.c | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_init.c b/drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_init.c
> index 2b233af..6384077 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_init.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_init.c
> @@ -1187,7 +1187,7 @@ unsigned char XGIInitNew(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> struct xgi_hw_device_info *HwDeviceExtension = &xgifb_info->hw_info;
> struct vb_device_info VBINF;
> struct vb_device_info *pVBInfo = &VBINF;
> - unsigned char i, temp = 0, temp1;
> + unsigned char i, temp = 0;
>
> pVBInfo->FBAddr = HwDeviceExtension->pjVideoMemoryAddress;
>
> @@ -1286,8 +1286,6 @@ unsigned char XGIInitNew(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> /* disable VideoCapture */
> xgifb_reg_and_or(pVBInfo->Part0Port, 0x3F, 0xEF, 0x00);
> xgifb_reg_set(pVBInfo->Part1Port, 0x00, 0x00);
> - /* chk if BCLK>=100MHz */
> - temp1 = xgifb_reg_get(pVBInfo->P3d4, 0x7B);

With hardware, you can't just remove all 'read' calls and expect things
to work because a static code checker things something is not right.

I'm going to drop _all_ of the patches you sent me in the past few days
as I really think they all are wrong. Please be more careful and work
on fixing real problems, not just ones that random tools think might be
wrong. Weeding out false-positives should not be my job, that's not
scalable at all.

sorry,

greg k-h
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