On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 08:19:03PM +0000, Harry Wentland wrote:
> On 2019-05-30 12:12 p.m., Colin King wrote:
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The variable status is initialized with a value that is never read
> > and status is reassigned several statements later. This initialization
> > is redundant and can be removed.
> >
> > Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link_dp.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link_dp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link_dp.c
> > index 65d6caedbd82..cf6166a1be53 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link_dp.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc_link_dp.c
> > @@ -2367,7 +2367,7 @@ static bool retrieve_link_cap(struct dc_link *link)
> > union down_stream_port_count down_strm_port_count;
> > union edp_configuration_cap edp_config_cap;
> > union dp_downstream_port_present ds_port = { 0 };
> > - enum dc_status status = DC_ERROR_UNEXPECTED;
> > + enum dc_status status;
>
> Not sure this improves the situation.
>
> I'd prefer to have a default here in case someone changes the code below
> and forgets to set the status.
The dead code confuses human readers, because people naturally assume it
is not dead.
GCC has a feature to warn about uninitialized variables and we're
randomly initializing status to a bogus value to disable static
analysis...
regards,
dan carpenter
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