This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled wifi: ray_cs: Drop useless status variable in parse_addr() to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: wifi-ray_cs-drop-useless-status-variable-in-parse_ad.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 7d705b4ddd98b5603dec26cc74030feea2eebf60 Author: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jun 3 19:44:14 2022 +0300 wifi: ray_cs: Drop useless status variable in parse_addr() [ Upstream commit 4dfc63c002a555a2c3c34d89009532ad803be876 ] The status variable assigned only once and used also only once. Replace it's usage by actual value. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220603164414.48436-2-andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Stable-dep-of: 4f8d66a9fb2e ("wifi: ray_cs: Fix an error handling path in ray_probe()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.c index f15714f19d0ff..e5cdcee04615f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.c @@ -1653,7 +1653,6 @@ static int parse_addr(char *in_str, UCHAR *out) { int i, k; int len; - int status; if (in_str == NULL) return 0; @@ -1662,7 +1661,6 @@ static int parse_addr(char *in_str, UCHAR *out) return 0; memset(out, 0, ADDRLEN); - status = 1; i = 5; while (len > 0) { @@ -1680,7 +1678,7 @@ static int parse_addr(char *in_str, UCHAR *out) if (!i--) break; } - return status; + return 1; } /*===========================================================================*/