The 'ret' local variables are often initialized to 0 but this value is unused, thus we can kill those initializers... Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxx> --- This patch is against the 'usb-next' branch of Greg KH's 'usb.git' repo. drivers/usb/host/ehci-dbg.c | 4 ++-- drivers/usb/host/ohci-dbg.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Index: usb/drivers/usb/host/ehci-dbg.c =================================================================== --- usb.orig/drivers/usb/host/ehci-dbg.c +++ usb/drivers/usb/host/ehci-dbg.c @@ -931,7 +931,7 @@ static struct debug_buffer *alloc_buffer static int fill_buffer(struct debug_buffer *buf) { - int ret = 0; + int ret; if (!buf->output_buf) buf->output_buf = vmalloc(buf->alloc_size); @@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ static ssize_t debug_output(struct file size_t len, loff_t *offset) { struct debug_buffer *buf = file->private_data; - int ret = 0; + int ret; mutex_lock(&buf->mutex); if (buf->count == 0) { Index: usb/drivers/usb/host/ohci-dbg.c =================================================================== --- usb.orig/drivers/usb/host/ohci-dbg.c +++ usb/drivers/usb/host/ohci-dbg.c @@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ static struct debug_buffer *alloc_buffer static int fill_buffer(struct debug_buffer *buf) { - int ret = 0; + int ret; if (!buf->page) buf->page = (char *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL); @@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ static ssize_t debug_output(struct file size_t len, loff_t *offset) { struct debug_buffer *buf = file->private_data; - int ret = 0; + int ret; mutex_lock(&buf->mutex); if (buf->count == 0) {