Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: ft1000: remove unused variables

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 04:33:02PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 10:56:52AM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > these variables were assigned some values but they were never being
> > reused again.
> 
> But some of them should have been checked, right?  Or, if no one cares,
> fix up the function to not return anything, like for all of the
> read_register() calls.
> 
> Please do that instead.
but the return value of ft1000_read_register() is being used in
some places like card_send_command() or in ft1000_ioctl().
we can use the return value (if error) in the poll() or ioctl()
instead of returning -1 or -ENOTTY. but in the other places,
its - no one cares.

regards
sudip

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h