Variable byData is being assigned a value that is never read, it is being re-assigned later on. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang scan build warning: drivers/staging/vt6655/srom.c:67:2: warning: Value stored to 'byData' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/vt6655/srom.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6655/srom.c b/drivers/staging/vt6655/srom.c index 1b89d401a7eb..e80556509c58 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/vt6655/srom.c +++ b/drivers/staging/vt6655/srom.c @@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ unsigned char SROMbyReadEmbedded(void __iomem *iobase, unsigned char byData; unsigned char byOrg; - byData = 0xFF; byOrg = ioread8(iobase + MAC_REG_I2MCFG); /* turn off hardware retry for getting NACK */ iowrite8(byOrg & (~I2MCFG_NORETRY), iobase + MAC_REG_I2MCFG); -- 2.39.2