The variable is almost unused, and one of the two uses is actually
uninitialized.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 tests/qemu-iotests/check     | 5 +----
 tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/check b/tests/qemu-iotests/check
index 7aec176ac4..5dfd4bd51d 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/check
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/check
@@ -30,12 +30,9 @@ interrupt=true
 # by default don't output timestamps
 timestamp=${TIMESTAMP:=false}
 
-# generic initialization
-iam=check
-
 _init_error()
 {
-    echo "$iam: $1" >&2
+    echo "check: $1" >&2
     exit 1
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc
index f4dc0104e6..0e8a33c696 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ poke_file()
 
 if ! . ./common.config
     then
-    echo "$iam: failed to source common.config"
+    echo "$0: failed to source common.config"
     exit 1
 fi
 
-- 
2.13.5

On 09/12/2017 09:44 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The variable is almost unused, and one of the two uses is actually
> uninitialized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
>  tests/qemu-iotests/check     | 5 +----
>  tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

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