There is no code path for reaching 'return ret;' without it first being assigned to an error code. Therefore the initialization with 0 is pointless. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c index c07525a9fd34..c5d99f4d5e3d 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c @@ -996,7 +996,7 @@ static int dspi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) const struct regmap_config *regmap_config; void __iomem *base; struct fsl_dspi_platform_data *pdata; - int ret = 0, cs_num, bus_num; + int ret, cs_num, bus_num; master = spi_alloc_master(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct fsl_dspi)); if (!master) -- 2.17.1