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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Nigel Christian <nigel.l.christian@gmail.com>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: uvcvideo: Remove unused variable
Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 12:29:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210503092924.GO1981@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YIyCJoEwdqgqkxYN@fedora>

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 06:18:14PM -0400, Nigel Christian wrote:
> The variable buflen is being assigned a value that is never read,
> which can be removed.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
> Signed-off-by: Nigel Christian <nigel.l.christian@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
> index 9a791d8ef200..370b086c6e22 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
> @@ -768,7 +768,6 @@ static int uvc_parse_format(struct uvc_device *dev,
>  		format->xfer_func = uvc_xfer_func(buffer[4]);
>  		format->ycbcr_enc = uvc_ycbcr_enc(buffer[5]);
>  
> -		buflen -= buffer[0];
>  		buffer += buffer[0];
>  	}

This is a situation where I think that the unused assignment helps
readability because it shows how buflen and buffer are connected.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-03  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-30 22:18 [PATCH] media: uvcvideo: Remove unused variable Nigel Christian
2021-05-03  9:29 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2021-05-03 10:07   ` Laurent Pinchart

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