Variable negative is being assigned a value that is never read, it is
being re-assigned later. The assignment is redundant and can be removed.

Cleans up clang scan build warning:
drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c:502:3: warning: Value stored
to 'negative' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores]

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c b/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c
index 74adb82f37c3..c0b2716d0511 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c
@@ -499,7 +499,6 @@ static int ad2s1210_read_raw(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
 		ret = IIO_VAL_INT;
 		break;
 	case IIO_ANGL_VEL:
-		negative = st->rx[0] & 0x80;
 		vel = be16_to_cpup((__be16 *)st->rx);
 		vel >>= 16 - st->resolution;
 		if (vel & 0x8000) {
-- 
2.35.1

On Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:46:03 +0100
Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com> wrote:

> Variable negative is being assigned a value that is never read, it is
> being re-assigned later. The assignment is redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Cleans up clang scan build warning:
> drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c:502:3: warning: Value stored
> to 'negative' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>

Seems that someone decided to match again against the endian converted
version so indeed this is pointless.

Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as testing for 0-day
to see if it can find anything we missed.

Thanks,

Jonathan

> ---
>  drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c b/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c
> index 74adb82f37c3..c0b2716d0511 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c
> @@ -499,7 +499,6 @@ static int ad2s1210_read_raw(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
>  		ret = IIO_VAL_INT;
>  		break;
>  	case IIO_ANGL_VEL:
> -		negative = st->rx[0] & 0x80;
>  		vel = be16_to_cpup((__be16 *)st->rx);
>  		vel >>= 16 - st->resolution;
>  		if (vel & 0x8000) {