Variable stp is assigned a value that is never read, the assignment and the variable stp are redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang scan build warning: drivers/scsi/st.c:4253:7: warning: Although the value stored to 'stp' is used in the enclosing expression, the value is never actually read from 'stp' [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/st.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/st.c b/drivers/scsi/st.c index 850172a2b8f1..65f521b036c1 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/st.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/st.c @@ -4246,11 +4246,10 @@ static int st_probe(struct device *dev) struct st_partstat *STps; struct st_buffer *buffer; int i, error; - char *stp; if (SDp->type != TYPE_TAPE) return -ENODEV; - if ((stp = st_incompatible(SDp))) { + if (st_incompatible(SDp)) { sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, SDp, "OnStream tapes are no longer supported;\n"); sdev_printk(KERN_INFO, SDp, -- 2.35.3