Re: [PATCH][next] iio: adc: ti-ads7950: remove redundant assignment to variable ret

[David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>]

On 1/6/24 9:22 AM, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Variable ret is being assigned a value that is never read, the variable
> is being re-assigned again a few statements later. Remove it.
> 
> Cleans up clang scan build warning:
> warning: Value stored to 'ret' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c | 2 --
>   1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c b/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c
> index 263fc3a1b87e..f975de059ba0 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c
> @@ -441,8 +441,6 @@ static int ti_ads7950_get(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned int offset)
>   	if (ret)
>   		goto out;
>   
> -	ret = ((st->single_rx >> 12) & BIT(offset)) ? 1 : 0;
> -
>   	/* Revert back to original settings */
>   	st->cmd_settings_bitmask &= ~TI_ADS7950_CR_GPIO_DATA;
>   	st->single_tx = TI_ADS7950_MAN_CMD_SETTINGS(st);

This does not look like the correct fix. This is the intended return value of the function in the case of no errors. So we probably need to introduce a new variable instead so that it doesn't get written over.