Subject: [PATCH 2/3] rapidio: tsi721_dma: Delete an unnecessary variable
 initialisation in tsi721_alloc_chan_resources()
From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
        Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>,
        Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 14:22:44 +0100

The local variable "desc" will eventually be set to an appropriate pointer
a bit later. Thus omit the explicit initialisation at the beginning.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c b/drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c
index f7bc85a27d1b..14fc36ac3d85 100644
--- a/drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c
+++ b/drivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ static dma_cookie_t tsi721_tx_submit(struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *txd)
 static int tsi721_alloc_chan_resources(struct dma_chan *dchan)
 {
 	struct tsi721_bdma_chan *bdma_chan = to_tsi721_chan(dchan);
-	struct tsi721_tx_desc *desc = NULL;
+	struct tsi721_tx_desc *desc;
 	int i;
 
 	tsi_debug(DMA, &dchan->dev->device, "DMAC%d", bdma_chan->id);
-- 
2.15.1