The 9p code for some reason used to initialize variables outside of the declaration, e.g. instead of just initializing the variable like this: int retval = 0 We would be doing this: int retval; retval = 0; This is perfectly fine and the compiler will just optimize dead stores anyway, but scan-build seems to think this is a problem and there are many of these warnings making the output of scan-build full of such warnings: fs/9p/vfs_inode.c:916:2: warning: Value stored to 'retval' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] retval = 0; ^ ~ I have no strong opinion here, but if we want to regularly run scan-build we should fix these just to silence the messages. I've confirmed these all are indeed ok to remove. Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@kernel.org>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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