phydev is assigned a value right away, no need to initialize it. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> --- Changes since v1: * rebased to net-next as of today * added Geert's tag (thanks!) drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c index 39446d4e94b6..c653ea792dd1 100644 --- 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; /* find the first phy */ -- 2.30.2