From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Variable byte_data is being initialized and re-assigned with values that are never read. Remove these as these redundant assignments. Cleans up clang warning: drivers/platform/x86/dell-smo8800.c:106:2: warning: Value stored to 'byte_data' is never read Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/x86/dell-smo8800.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smo8800.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smo8800.c index 37e646034ef8..1d87237bc731 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smo8800.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smo8800.c @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static ssize_t smo8800_misc_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, struct smo8800_device, miscdev); u32 data = 0; - unsigned char byte_data = 0; + unsigned char byte_data; ssize_t retval = 1; if (count < 1) @@ -103,7 +103,6 @@ static ssize_t smo8800_misc_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, if (retval) return retval; - byte_data = 1; retval = 1; if (data < 255) -- 2.14.1