Author: Rajbinder Brar <brar.rajbinder@gmail.com> This patch merges an assignment with an immediately following return of the assigned variable. The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used to make this transformation: @@ expression ret; identifier f; @@ -ret= +return f(…); -return ret; A variable that became unused due to this transformation was also removed. Signed-off-by: Rajbinder Brar …