On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 18:34:40 +0000 Colin Ian King wrote: > Variable new_csr6 is being initialized with a value that is never > read, it is being re-assigned later on. The assignment is redundant > and can be removed. > @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ void pnic_do_nway(struct net_device *dev) > struct tulip_private *tp = netdev_priv(dev); > void __iomem *ioaddr = tp->base_addr; > u32 phy_reg = ioread32(ioaddr + 0xB8); > - u32 new_csr6 = tp->csr6 & ~0x40C40200; > + u32 new_csr6; > > if (phy_reg & 0x78000000) { /* Ignore baseT4 */ > if (phy_reg & 0x20000000) dev->if_port = 5; I can't say I see what you mean, it's not set in some cases: if (tp->medialock) { } else if (tp->nwayset && (dev->if_port & 1)) { next_tick = 1*HZ; } else if (dev->if_port == 0) { dev->if_port = 3; iowrite32(0x33, ioaddr + CSR12); new_csr6 = 0x01860000; iowrite32(0x1F868, ioaddr + 0xB8); } else { dev->if_port = 0; iowrite32(0x32, ioaddr + CSR12); new_csr6 = 0x00420000; iowrite32(0x1F078, ioaddr + 0xB8); } if (tp->csr6 != new_csr6) { tp->csr6 = new_csr6; That said clang doesn't complain so maybe I'm missing something static analysis had figured out about this code.