Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: slicoss: remove redundant initialization of idx

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Mon Oct 30 2017 - 14:05:02 EST


On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 13:38:09 +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Variable idx is being initialized and later on over-written by
> a new value in a do-loop without the initial value ever being
> read. Hence the initializion is redundant and can be removed.
> Cleans up clang warning:
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/slicoss.c:358:15: warning: Value
> stored to 'idx' during its initialization is never read
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/slicoss.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/slicoss.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/slicoss.c
> index 15a8096c60df..ac8004186fa8 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/slicoss.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/slicoss.c
> @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ static void slic_xmit_complete(struct slic_device *sdev)
> {
> struct slic_tx_queue *txq = &sdev->txq;
> struct net_device *dev = sdev->netdev;
> - unsigned int idx = txq->done_idx;
> + unsigned int idx;
> struct slic_tx_buffer *buff;
> unsigned int frames = 0;
> unsigned int bytes = 0;

You should probably reorder the variables now so they stay longest to
shortest.