* [PATCH] char_dev: Remove pointless assignment from __register_chrdev_region()
@ 2014-10-22 7:40 Jan Kara
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From: Jan Kara @ 2014-10-22 7:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alexander Viro; +Cc: linux-fsdevel, Jan Kara
At one place we assign major number we found to ret. That assignment is
then never used and actually doesn't make any sense given how the code
is currently structured (the assignment comes from pre-git times). Just
remove it.
Coverity-id: 1226852
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
fs/char_dev.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index f77f7702fabe..67b2007f10fe 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -117,7 +117,6 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
goto out;
}
major = i;
- ret = major;
}
cd->major = major;
--
1.8.1.4
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