Re: [PATCH][next] iio: adc: ti-ads7950: remove redundant assignment to variable ret

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On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 12:14:22 -0600
David Lechner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 1/6/24 9:22 AM, Colin Ian King wrote:
> > Variable ret is being assigned a value that is never read, the variable
> > is being re-assigned again a few statements later. Remove it.
> > 
> > Cleans up clang scan build warning:
> > warning: Value stored to 'ret' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores]
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c | 2 --
> >   1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c b/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c
> > index 263fc3a1b87e..f975de059ba0 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c
> > +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c
> > @@ -441,8 +441,6 @@ static int ti_ads7950_get(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned int offset)
> >   	if (ret)
> >   		goto out;
> >   
> > -	ret = ((st->single_rx >> 12) & BIT(offset)) ? 1 : 0;
> > -
> >   	/* Revert back to original settings */
> >   	st->cmd_settings_bitmask &= ~TI_ADS7950_CR_GPIO_DATA;
> >   	st->single_tx = TI_ADS7950_MAN_CMD_SETTINGS(st);  
> 
> This does not look like the correct fix. This is the intended return value of the function in the case of no errors. So we probably need to introduce a new variable instead so that it doesn't get written over.

Agreed.  Needs to stash that in another local variable and return that value
if ret == 0.

J





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