The patch titled Subject: dca: delete unnecessary variable has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is dca-delete-unnecessary-variable.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/dca-delete-unnecessary-variable.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: dca: delete unnecessary variable Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 13:06:12 +0300 It's more readable to just pass NULL directly instead of using a variable for that. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y/yAlDytLH0ZNLNz@kili Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/drivers/dca/dca-core.c~dca-delete-unnecessary-variable +++ a/drivers/dca/dca-core.c @@ -294,9 +294,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dca3_get_tag); */ u8 dca_get_tag(int cpu) { - struct device *dev = NULL; - - return dca_common_get_tag(dev, cpu); + return dca_common_get_tag(NULL, cpu); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dca_get_tag); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from error27@xxxxxxxxx are dca-delete-unnecessary-variable.patch