The variable linestate being assigned a value that is never read, the following continue statement jumps to the end of the while-loop and then it is re-assigned a new value. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang scan build warning: drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_cls.c:398:4: warning: Value stored to 'linestatus' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_cls.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_cls.c b/drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_cls.c index 1eda48964c0b..ddbd42c09637 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_cls.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_cls.c @@ -395,7 +395,6 @@ static void cls_copy_data_from_uart_to_queue(struct jsm_channel *ch) * which in this case is the break signal. */ if (linestatus & error_mask) { - linestatus = 0; readb(&ch->ch_cls_uart->txrx); continue; } -- 2.39.2