'parent' is always overwritten before getting used and there is no need to initialize it with NULL.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org --- drivers/base/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index 684bda4d14a1..5fc1a50f7577 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -1612,7 +1612,7 @@ int device_private_init(struct device *dev) */ int device_add(struct device *dev) { - struct device *parent = NULL; + struct device *parent; struct kobject *kobj; struct class_interface *class_intf; int error = -EINVAL;