On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Pali Rohár <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 31 October 2017 15:47:58 Andy Shevchenko wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Colin King <[email protected]> wrote: >> > From: Colin Ian King <[email protected]> >> > >> > Variable byte_data is being initialized and re-assigned with values that >> > are never read. Remove these as these redundant assignments. Cleans up >> > clang warning: >> > >> > drivers/platform/x86/dell-smo8800.c:106:2: warning: Value stored to >> > 'byte_data' >> > is never read >> >> Thanks for the patch. >> >> As I read a code it was from the beginning like this. I dunno what was >> a motivation of this pieces, thus I would like to hear Pali. > > IIRC this part of code comes from the lis3lv* driver which was used for > HP EliteBook machines. As both drivers provides similar interface for > userspace.
OK, though it doesn't clarify the intention of the byte_data (useless?) assignments. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
