On 10/12/2020 18:23:05+0100, Markus Elfring wrote:
> >> Can the extra null pointer initialisation trigger a source code analysis warning
> >> like “Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")” for this function implementation?
> >>
> >
> > Did you check, does it? It doesn't.
> >
> > Are you wasting maintainer and reviewer's time? Yes you are.
>
> How do you think about a patch like “staging: speakup: remove redundant initialization
> of pointer p_key” for comparison?
> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1199128/
> https://lore.kernel.org/driverdev-devel/20200223153954.420731-1-colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Would you tolerate to omit the initialisation for the variable “slot”?
>
If you were able to provide one good technical reason.
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