The return value need to be either ignored or acted upon, otherwise 'deadstore' clang check would yell at us. I think it's better to just ignore what this particular call of set_registers() returns. The adapter defaults are sane and it would be operational even if the register write fail. Signed-off-by: Petko Manolov <petko.manolov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c b/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c index 652e9fcf0b77..49cfc720d78f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c @@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ static int enable_net_traffic(struct net_device *dev, struct usb_device *usb) data[2] = loopback ? 0x09 : 0x01; memcpy(pegasus->eth_regs, data, sizeof(data)); - ret = set_registers(pegasus, EthCtrl0, 3, data); + set_registers(pegasus, EthCtrl0, 3, data); if (usb_dev_id[pegasus->dev_index].vendor == VENDOR_LINKSYS || usb_dev_id[pegasus->dev_index].vendor == VENDOR_LINKSYS2 || -- 2.30.2
