below is a patch that just removes dead code/initializers without any
effect (first access is an assignment) that I stumbled accross while
reading the source.

Signed-off-by: Florian Zumbiehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Michal Ostrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 drivers/net/pppoe.c |   21 ++++++++-------------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/pppoe.c b/drivers/net/pppoe.c
index ebfa296..ec4e67d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/pppoe.c
+++ b/drivers/net/pppoe.c
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ static inline struct pppox_sock *get_item(unsigned long sid,
 
 static inline struct pppox_sock *get_item_by_addr(struct sockaddr_pppox *sp)
 {
-       struct net_device *dev = NULL;
+       struct net_device *dev;
        int ifindex;
 
        dev = dev_get_by_name(sp->sa_addr.pppoe.dev);
@@ -222,9 +222,6 @@ static inline int set_item(struct pppox_sock *po)
 {
        int i;
 
-       if (!po)
-               return -EINVAL;
-
        write_lock_bh(&pppoe_hash_lock);
        i = __set_item(po);
        write_unlock_bh(&pppoe_hash_lock);
@@ -344,7 +341,7 @@ static struct notifier_block pppoe_notifier = {
 static int pppoe_rcv_core(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
        struct pppox_sock *po = pppox_sk(sk);
-       struct pppox_sock *relay_po = NULL;
+       struct pppox_sock *relay_po;
 
        if (sk->sk_state & PPPOX_BOUND) {
                struct pppoe_hdr *ph = (struct pppoe_hdr *) skb->nh.raw;
@@ -514,7 +511,6 @@ static int pppoe_release(struct socket *sock)
 {
        struct sock *sk = sock->sk;
        struct pppox_sock *po;
-       int error = 0;
 
        if (!sk)
                return 0;
@@ -543,7 +539,7 @@ static int pppoe_release(struct socket *sock)
        skb_queue_purge(&sk->sk_receive_queue);
        sock_put(sk);
 
-       return error;
+       return 0;
 }
 
 
@@ -762,10 +758,10 @@ static int pppoe_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int 
cmd,
 static int pppoe_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
                  struct msghdr *m, size_t total_len)
 {
-       struct sk_buff *skb = NULL;
+       struct sk_buff *skb;
        struct sock *sk = sock->sk;
        struct pppox_sock *po = pppox_sk(sk);
-       int error = 0;
+       int error;
        struct pppoe_hdr hdr;
        struct pppoe_hdr *ph;
        struct net_device *dev;
@@ -929,10 +925,10 @@ static int pppoe_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct 
socket *sock,
                  struct msghdr *m, size_t total_len, int flags)
 {
        struct sock *sk = sock->sk;
-       struct sk_buff *skb = NULL;
+       struct sk_buff *skb;
        int error = 0;
        int len;
-       struct pppoe_hdr *ph = NULL;
+       struct pppoe_hdr *ph;
 
        if (sk->sk_state & PPPOX_BOUND) {
                error = -EIO;
@@ -949,7 +945,6 @@ static int pppoe_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket 
*sock,
        m->msg_namelen = 0;
 
        if (skb) {
-               error = 0;
                ph = (struct pppoe_hdr *) skb->nh.raw;
                len = ntohs(ph->length);
 
@@ -991,7 +986,7 @@ out:
 
 static __inline__ struct pppox_sock *pppoe_get_idx(loff_t pos)
 {
-       struct pppox_sock *po = NULL;
+       struct pppox_sock *po;
        int i = 0;
 
        for (; i < PPPOE_HASH_SIZE; i++) {
-- 
1.5.0.g78e90

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