On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 11:50:49AM +0000, Colin Ian King wrote: > The variable capability is being assigned a value that is never > read and is being re-assigned later. The assignment is redundant and > can be removed. Also remove empty line before assignment to capability. > > Cleans up clang scan build warning: > drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c:1189:2: warning: > Value stored to 'capability' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] > > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c | 2 -- > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c > index 35ec9aab3dc7..51fa880eaf6c 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c > @@ -1186,7 +1186,6 @@ static int > netxen_p3_has_mn(struct netxen_adapter *adapter) > { > u32 capability, flashed_ver; > - capability = 0; This part looks correct :) > > /* NX2031 always had MN */ > if (NX_IS_REVISION_P2(adapter->ahw.revision_id)) > @@ -1197,7 +1196,6 @@ netxen_p3_has_mn(struct netxen_adapter *adapter) > flashed_ver = NETXEN_DECODE_VERSION(flashed_ver); > > if (flashed_ver >= NETXEN_VERSION_CODE(4, 0, 220)) { > - This part doesn't seem strictly related to the patch description. But in looking at it more closely, I wonder if it would be good to reduce the scope of capability to this context (and leave the bank line). > capability = NXRD32(adapter, NX_PEG_TUNE_CAPABILITY); > if (capability & NX_PEG_TUNE_MN_PRESENT) > return 1; In any case, I agree that this patch is correct, and I'm happy with it with or without the change I suggested above. Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>