The variable new is initialized with a value but it is never read. It is being re-assigned a new value in every case path in the following switch statement. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang scan build warning: sound/pci/ice1712/quartet.c:569:8: warning: Although the value stored to 'new' is used in the enclosing expression, the value is never actually read from 'new' [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- sound/pci/ice1712/quartet.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sound/pci/ice1712/quartet.c b/sound/pci/ice1712/quartet.c index 0dfa093f7dca..20b3e8f94719 100644 --- a/sound/pci/ice1712/quartet.c +++ b/sound/pci/ice1712/quartet.c @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ static int qtet_ain12_sw_put(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol, { struct snd_ice1712 *ice = snd_kcontrol_chip(kcontrol); unsigned int old, new, tmp, masked_old; - old = new = get_scr(ice); + old = get_scr(ice); masked_old = old & (SCR_AIN12_SEL1 | SCR_AIN12_SEL0); tmp = ucontrol->value.integer.value[0]; if (tmp == 2) -- 2.35.3