Pointer pdata is being initialized with a value that is never read. It is being re-assigned later on with the return from a devm_kzalloc call. Remove the redundant initialization, cleans up clang scan build warning: drivers/regulator/palmas-regulator.c:1597:36: warning: Value stored to 'pdata' during its initialization is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/regulator/palmas-regulator.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/regulator/palmas-regulator.c b/drivers/regulator/palmas-regulator.c index e0dc033aae0f..60656a815b9e 100644 --- a/drivers/regulator/palmas-regulator.c +++ b/drivers/regulator/palmas-regulator.c @@ -1594,7 +1594,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id of_palmas_match_tbl[] = { static int palmas_regulators_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) { struct palmas *palmas = dev_get_drvdata(pdev->dev.parent); - struct palmas_pmic_platform_data *pdata = dev_get_platdata(&pdev->dev); + struct palmas_pmic_platform_data *pdata; struct device_node *node = pdev->dev.of_node; struct palmas_pmic_driver_data *driver_data; struct regulator_config config = { }; -- 2.39.2