We do not care about the return value of that read between the scratch register write and read, we really just want to make sure that the pattern in the bus get changed to make sure we are testing correctly the scratch pattern. Clang-analyzer complains about the never read scratch variable: >> drivers/usb/isp1760/isp1760-hcd.c:735:2: warning: Value stored to 'scratch' is never read [clang-analyzer-deadcode.DeadStores] scratch = isp1760_hcd_read(hcd, HC_CHIP_ID_HIGH); Just ignore the return value of that CHIP_ID_HIGH read, add more information to the comment above why we are doing this. And as at it, just do a small format change in the error message bellow. Signed-off-by: Rui Miguel Silva <rui.silva@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/isp1760/isp1760-hcd.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/isp1760/isp1760-hcd.c b/drivers/usb/isp1760/isp1760-hcd.c index 825be736be33..2a21fe5aa7a8 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/isp1760/isp1760-hcd.c +++ b/drivers/usb/isp1760/isp1760-hcd.c @@ -731,11 +731,15 @@ static int isp1760_hc_setup(struct usb_hcd *hcd) isp1760_hcd_write(hcd, HC_SCRATCH, pattern); - /* Change bus pattern */ - scratch = isp1760_hcd_read(hcd, HC_CHIP_ID_HIGH); + /* + * we do not care about the read value here we just want to + * change bus pattern. + */ + isp1760_hcd_read(hcd, HC_CHIP_ID_HIGH); scratch = isp1760_hcd_read(hcd, HC_SCRATCH); if (scratch != pattern) { - dev_err(hcd->self.controller, "Scratch test failed. 0x%08x\n", scratch); + dev_err(hcd->self.controller, "Scratch test failed. 0x%08x\n", + scratch); return -ENODEV; } -- 2.33.0