The variable bytes is being assigned a value that is never read, it is being re-assigned inside a following if block. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang scan build warning: sound/pci/echoaudio/midi.c:211:9: warning: Although the value stored to 'bytes' is used in the enclosing expression, the value is never actually read from 'bytes' [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- sound/pci/echoaudio/midi.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sound/pci/echoaudio/midi.c b/sound/pci/echoaudio/midi.c index cb72d27e809e..7be5c3327b16 100644 --- a/sound/pci/echoaudio/midi.c +++ b/sound/pci/echoaudio/midi.c @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ static void snd_echo_midi_output_write(struct timer_list *t) /* No interrupts are involved: we have to check at regular intervals if the card's output buffer has room for new data. */ - sent = bytes = 0; + sent = 0; spin_lock_irqsave(&chip->lock, flags); chip->midi_full = 0; if (!snd_rawmidi_transmit_empty(chip->midi_out)) { -- 2.34.1