From: Colin Ian King <colin.king(a)canonical.com&gt; Pointer nd_mapping is being initialized to a value that is never read, instead it is being updated to a new value in all the cases where it is being read afterwards, hence the initialization is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang warning: drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c:2411:21: warning: Value stored to 'nd_mapping' during its initialization is never rea Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king(a)canonical.com&gt; --- drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c index bb3ba8cf24d4..658ada497be0 100644 --- a/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c @@ -2408,7 +2408,7 @@ static struct device **scan_labels(struct nd_region *nd_region) static struct device **create_namespaces(struct nd_region *nd_region) { - struct nd_mapping *nd_mapping = &nd_region->mapping[0]; + struct nd_mapping *nd_mapping; struct device **devs; int i; -- 2.15.1