Hi Wolfram, On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 12:50 PM Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > phydev is assigned a value right away, no need to initialize it. > > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks for your patch! Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c > @@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ static void smsc911x_phy_adjust_link(struct net_device *dev) > static int smsc911x_mii_probe(struct net_device *dev) > { > struct smsc911x_data *pdata = netdev_priv(dev); > - struct phy_device *phydev = NULL; > + struct phy_device *phydev; > int ret; > > phydev = phy_find_first(pdata->mii_bus); Nit: perhaps combine this assignment with the variable declaration? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds