Hello Mauro Carvalho Chehab, The patch 269d91f53fe3: "[media] vp702x: comment dead code" from Apr 29, 2015, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-remote.c:128 legacy_dvb_usb_read_remote_control() error: uninitialized symbol 'state'. drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-remote.c 108 static void legacy_dvb_usb_read_remote_control(struct work_struct *work) 109 { 110 struct dvb_usb_device *d = 111 container_of(work, struct dvb_usb_device, rc_query_work.work); 112 u32 event; 113 int state; 114 115 /* TODO: need a lock here. We can simply skip checking for the remote control 116 if we're busy. */ 117 118 /* when the parameter has been set to 1 via sysfs while the driver was running */ 119 if (dvb_usb_disable_rc_polling) 120 return; 121 122 if (d->props.rc.legacy.rc_query(d,&event,&state)) { ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This sometimes returns zero without doing anything like in vp702x_rc_query(). 123 err("error while querying for an remote control event."); 124 goto schedule; 125 } 126 127 128 switch (state) { 129 case REMOTE_NO_KEY_PRESSED: 130 break; 131 case REMOTE_KEY_PRESSED: 132 deb_rc("key pressed\n"); 133 d->last_event = event; 134 case REMOTE_KEY_REPEAT: 135 deb_rc("key repeated\n"); 136 input_event(d->input_dev, EV_KEY, event, 1); 137 input_sync(d->input_dev); 138 input_event(d->input_dev, EV_KEY, d->last_event, 0); 139 input_sync(d->input_dev); 140 break; 141 default: 142 break; 143 } regards, dan carpenter