This patch remove variables that are initialized with a constant, are never updated, and are only used as parameter of return. Return the constant instead of using a variable. Verified by compilation only. The coccinelle script that find and fixes this issue is: // <smpl> @@ type T; constant C; identifier ret; @@ - T ret = C; ... when != ret - return ret; + return C; // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_download.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_download.c b/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_download.c index cab9cdf..65f9801 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_download.c +++ b/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_download.c @@ -522,7 +522,6 @@ static void usb_dnld_complete(struct urb *urb) static int write_blk_fifo(struct ft1000_usb *ft1000dev, u16 **pUsFile, u8 **pUcFile, long word_length) { - int Status = 0; int byte_length; byte_length = word_length * 4; @@ -547,7 +546,7 @@ static int write_blk_fifo(struct ft1000_usb *ft1000dev, u16 **pUsFile, *pUsFile = *pUsFile + (word_length << 1); *pUcFile = *pUcFile + (word_length << 2); - return Status; + return 0; } static int scram_start_dwnld(struct ft1000_usb *ft1000dev, u16 *hshake, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html