[PATCH net-next] net: ti: icssg-prueth: Omit a variable reassignment in prueth_netdev_init()

Markus Elfring Markus.Elfring at web.de
Mon Oct 20 07:02:56 PDT 2025


From: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:46:11 +0200

An error code was assigned to a variable and checked accordingly.
This value was passed to a dev_err_probe() call in an if branch.
This function is documented in the way that the same value is returned.
Thus delete two redundant variable reassignments.

The source code was transformed by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_prueth.c     | 3 +--
 drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_prueth_sr1.c | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_prueth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_prueth.c
index e42d0fdefee1..0bfd761bffc5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_prueth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_prueth.c
@@ -1248,8 +1248,7 @@ static int prueth_netdev_init(struct prueth *prueth,
 	} else if (of_phy_is_fixed_link(eth_node)) {
 		ret = of_phy_register_fixed_link(eth_node);
 		if (ret) {
-			ret = dev_err_probe(prueth->dev, ret,
-					    "failed to register fixed-link phy\n");
+			dev_err_probe(prueth->dev, ret, "failed to register fixed-link phy\n");
 			goto free;
 		}
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_prueth_sr1.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_prueth_sr1.c
index 5e225310c9de..bd88877e8e65 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_prueth_sr1.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_prueth_sr1.c
@@ -816,8 +816,7 @@ static int prueth_netdev_init(struct prueth *prueth,
 	} else if (of_phy_is_fixed_link(eth_node)) {
 		ret = of_phy_register_fixed_link(eth_node);
 		if (ret) {
-			ret = dev_err_probe(prueth->dev, ret,
-					    "failed to register fixed-link phy\n");
+			dev_err_probe(prueth->dev, ret, "failed to register fixed-link phy\n");
 			goto free;
 		}
 
-- 
2.51.1




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