Re: [PATCH] watchdog_dev: Remove unnecessary ‘0’ values from err

[Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/21/23 04:05, fenghui wrote:
> err is assigned first, so it does not need to initialize the assignment.
>
> Signed-off-by: fenghui <fenghui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
> index 15df74e11a59..0868ccbcf92b 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
> @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ static int watchdog_start(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
>    */
>   static int watchdog_stop(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
>   {
> -	int err = 0;
> +	int err;
>   
>   	if (!watchdog_active(wdd))
>   		return 0;

NACK

...

       if (wdd->ops->stop) {
                clear_bit(WDOG_HW_RUNNING, &wdd->status);
                err = wdd->ops->stop(wdd);
                trace_watchdog_stop(wdd, err);
        } else {
                set_bit(WDOG_HW_RUNNING, &wdd->status);		<-- err is not set in this path
        }