From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The variable res is being initialized with a value that is never read and it is being updated later with a new value. The initialization is redundant and can be removed. Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hwmon/i5k_amb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/i5k_amb.c b/drivers/hwmon/i5k_amb.c index eeac4b04df27..cd5b62905eee 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/i5k_amb.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/i5k_amb.c @@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ static int i5k_amb_hwmon_init(struct platform_device *pdev) static int i5k_amb_add(void) { - int res = -ENODEV; + int res; /* only ever going to be one of these */ amb_pdev = platform_device_alloc(DRVNAME, 0); -- 2.27.0.rc0