From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> The Coverity checker found that sscape_sb_enable never get's assigned any value different from 0, and therefore some code paths are impossible. This patch removes this variable and the dead code paths. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> --- sound/oss/sscape.c | 8 +------- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN sound/oss/sscape.c~sound-oss-sscapec-remove-dead-code sound/oss/sscape.c --- 25/sound/oss/sscape.c~sound-oss-sscapec-remove-dead-code 2005-04-25 18:54:00.918389368 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/sound/oss/sscape.c 2005-04-25 19:02:05.032792792 -0700 @@ -991,7 +991,6 @@ static void __init sscape_pnp_init_hw(ss unsigned i; static char code_file_name[23] = "/sndscape/sndscape.cox"; - int sscape_sb_enable = 0; int sscape_joystic_enable = 0x7f; int sscape_mic_enable = 0; int sscape_ext_midi = 0; @@ -1015,14 +1014,9 @@ static void __init sscape_pnp_init_hw(ss sscape_write( devc, 2, devc->ic_type == IC_ODIE ? 0x70 : 0x40); sscape_write( devc, 3, ( devc -> dma << 4) | 0x80); - if ( sscape_sb_enable ) - sscape_write (devc, 4, 0xF0 | (sb_irq << 2) | midi_irq); - else - sscape_write (devc, 4, 0xF0 | (midi_irq<<2) | midi_irq); + sscape_write (devc, 4, 0xF0 | (midi_irq<<2) | midi_irq); i = 0x10; //sscape_read(devc, 9) & (devc->ic_type == IC_ODIE ? 0xf0 : 0xc0); - if ( sscape_sb_enable ) - i |= devc->ic_type == IC_ODIE ? 0x05 : 0x07; if (sscape_joystic_enable) i |= 8; sscape_write (devc, 9, i); _