Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: rtl871x_security.c: remove unnecessary variable initialization

[Luis de Bethencourt <luis@debethencourt.com>]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 07:42:24PM +0530, Sunil Shahu wrote:
> Variable "u32 c" always re-initialize in for loop.
> Initialized value of "u32 c" is not used in function
> and is redundant, hence removed.
> 
> Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sunil Shahu <shshahu@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_security.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_security.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_security.c
> index 21465c9..8627928 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_security.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_security.c
> @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ static u8 crc32_reverseBit(u8 data)
>  static void crc32_init(void)
>  {
>  	sint i, j;
> -	u32 c = 0x12340000;
> +	u32 c;
>  	u8 *p = (u8 *)&c, *p1;
>  	u8 k;
>  
> -- 
> 1.9.1

The patch is good, the value assigned to c is immediately overwritten.

Unfortunately the patch fails to apply in staging-testing and linux-next. Could
you please rebase?

Thanks,
Luis