On Tuesday, April 13, 2021 5:16:17 PM CEST Julia Lawall wrote: > On Tue, 13 Apr 2021, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote: > > Removed "ledBlink_param" because it was set to the value of "pbuf" but > > was never reused. This set was made by direct assignment (no helper > > had been called), therefore it had no side effect to the location > > pointed by "pbuf". > > > > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > > > drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 2 -- > > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c > > b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c index > > f19a15a3924b..440e22922106 100644 > > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c > > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c > > @@ -6191,12 +6191,10 @@ u8 set_chplan_hdl(struct adapter *padapter, > > unsigned char *pbuf)> > > u8 led_blink_hdl(struct adapter *padapter, unsigned char *pbuf) > > { > > > > - struct LedBlink_param *ledBlink_param; > > > > if (!pbuf) > > > > return H2C_PARAMETERS_ERROR; > > > > - ledBlink_param = (struct LedBlink_param *)pbuf; > > > > return H2C_SUCCESS; > > > > } > > Is this function actually useful? > > julia > Actually, it is completely useless. We should ask the original authors for explanations :) I'm about to grep the whole driver for the purpose to check if there are callers elsewhere and then delete any call and the function itself. Thanks, Fabio