Variable status is being assigned a value that is never read, it is being re-assigned again later on. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang scan build warning: drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c:582:7: warning: Although the value stored to 'status' is used in the enclosing expression, the value is never actually read from 'status' [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c index 21d2645885ce..fe5e77330f5f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ static int myri10ge_load_hotplug_firmware(struct myri10ge_priv *mgp, u32 * size) int status; unsigned i; - if ((status = request_firmware(&fw, mgp->fw_name, dev)) < 0) { + if (request_firmware(&fw, mgp->fw_name, dev) < 0) { dev_err(dev, "Unable to load %s firmware image via hotplug\n", mgp->fw_name); status = -EINVAL; -- 2.35.1