The variable okay is being initialized with a value that is never read, it is being re-assigned later on. The initialization is redundant and can be removed. Also clean up assignment to variable freespace using an assignment and mask operation. Cleans up clang scan build warning: drivers/net/ethernet/xircom/xirc2ps_cs.c:1244:5: warning: Value stored to 'okay' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/xircom/xirc2ps_cs.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/xircom/xirc2ps_cs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/xircom/xirc2ps_cs.c index 9f505cf02d96..e9bc38fd2025 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/xircom/xirc2ps_cs.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/xircom/xirc2ps_cs.c @@ -1240,9 +1240,7 @@ do_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) netif_stop_queue(dev); SelectPage(0); PutWord(XIRCREG0_TRS, (u_short)pktlen+2); - freespace = GetWord(XIRCREG0_TSO); - okay = freespace & 0x8000; - freespace &= 0x7fff; + freespace = GetWord(XIRCREG0_TSO) & 0x7fff; /* TRS doesn't work - (indeed it is eliminated with sil-rev 1) */ okay = pktlen +2 < freespace; pr_debug("%s: avail. tx space=%u%s\n", -- 2.39.2