Remove the unused variable 'ret' as suggested by clang scan warning: Value stored to 'ret' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] ret = 0; Signed-off-by: Gautam Menghani <gautam.linuxkernel@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/parport/parport_pc.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c b/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c index eda4ded4d5e5..3d9fcbe758d7 100644 --- a/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c +++ b/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c @@ -507,7 +507,6 @@ static size_t parport_pc_fifo_write_block_pio(struct parport *port, ret = parport_wait_event(port, HZ); if (ret < 0) break; - ret = 0; if (!time_before(jiffies, expire)) { /* Timed out. */ printk(KERN_DEBUG "FIFO write timed out\n"); @@ -636,7 +635,6 @@ static size_t parport_pc_fifo_write_block_dma(struct parport *port, ret = parport_wait_event(port, HZ); if (ret < 0) break; - ret = 0; if (!time_before(jiffies, expire)) { /* Timed out. */ printk(KERN_DEBUG "DMA write timed out\n"); -- 2.25.1