Re: [PATCH 4/5] staging: rtl8192e: Remove unused local variable irq_line

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 11:48:20PM +0200, Philipp Hortmann wrote:
> Remove unused local variable irq_line.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_pci.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_pci.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_pci.c
> index 0bc3e013001e..1c3ccd2aabc3 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_pci.c
> @@ -33,11 +33,9 @@ bool rtl92e_check_adapter(struct pci_dev *pdev, struct net_device *dev)
>  	struct r8192_priv *priv = (struct r8192_priv *)rtllib_priv(dev);
>  	u16 device_id;
>  	u8  revision_id;
> -	u16 irq_line;
>  
>  	device_id = pdev->device;
>  	revision_id = pdev->revision;
> -	pci_read_config_word(pdev, 0x3C, &irq_line);

As was pointed out, that might not be "unused".

When doing a PCI write, the only way to know it has completed is to
issue a read.  Are you sure this isn't a read that is flushing out a
pending write?  Look at who calls this function and verify that this
read really is safe to remove and then document that really really well
in the changelog text when doing so.

Be careful about removing seemingly-unused PCI read/writes, they often
times are actually needed.

thanks,

greg k-h