Re: [PATCH] staging/ks7070: Removed unused varibale

[YU Bo <tsu.yubo@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 08:43:20AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 01:39:39AM -0500, Bo YU wrote:
>> From: Bo Yu <tsu.yubo@gmail.com>
>>
>> Compiling the kernel with W=1 results in the following warning:
>>
>> drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c:465:6: warning: variable ‘mib_val_type’
>> set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>>   u16 mib_val_type;
>>
>> drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c:464:6: warning: variable ‘mib_val_size’
>> set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>>     u16 mib_val_size;
>>
>> drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c:786:6: warning: variable ‘result_code’
>> set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>>       u16 result_code;
>>
>> Remove these variables.
>>
>> Rebase on next-20190222
>>
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>> Cc: Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Quytelda Kahja <quytelda@tamalin.org>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bo Yu <tsu.yubo@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c | 6 ------
>>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
>> index d938b0997a53..913d8996437a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
>> @@ -461,13 +461,9 @@ void hostif_mib_get_confirm(struct ks_wlan_private *priv)
>>  	struct net_device *dev = priv->net_dev;
>>  	u32 mib_status;
>>  	u32 mib_attribute;
>> -	u16 mib_val_size;
>> -	u16 mib_val_type;
>>
>>  	mib_status = get_dword(priv);
>>  	mib_attribute = get_dword(priv);
>> -	mib_val_size = get_word(priv);
>> -	mib_val_type = get_word(priv);
>
>The function get_word() actually does something to the priv structure,
>so you just broke the driver :(
>
>>
>>  	if (mib_status) {
>>  		netdev_err(priv->net_dev, "attribute=%08X, status=%08X\n",
>> @@ -783,9 +779,7 @@ void hostif_ps_adhoc_set_confirm(struct ks_wlan_private *priv)
>>  static
>>  void hostif_infrastructure_set_confirm(struct ks_wlan_private *priv)
>>  {
>> -	u16 result_code;
>>
>> -	result_code = get_word(priv);
>>  	priv->infra_status = 1;	/* infrastructure mode set */
>>  	hostif_sme_enqueue(priv, SME_MODE_SET_CONFIRM);
>
>Same here, odds are you just broke things :(
>
>Please be more careful.
Ok, I have through get_word() and get_byte() before modifing the code.
I think it should be better to encapsulate get_word without return value to do some operations
like that? right?
>
>greg k-h