From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The pointer pwm 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/pwm/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/pwm/core.c b/drivers/pwm/core.c index a28c8639af5b..35e894f4a379 100644 --- a/drivers/pwm/core.c +++ b/drivers/pwm/core.c @@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_pwm_get); */ static struct pwm_device *acpi_pwm_get(const struct fwnode_handle *fwnode) { - struct pwm_device *pwm = ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); + struct pwm_device *pwm; struct fwnode_reference_args args; struct pwm_chip *chip; int ret; -- 2.31.1