Author: Chase Southwood <chase.southwood@gmail.com> Coccinelle (using scripts/coccinelle/tests/doublebitand.cocci) found this assignment because 0 is or’d twice. Upon inspection, I found that the variable “mode” is only assigned once and used once, and thus can be cleanly removed. This patch plugs its value straight into writew() and then removes the variable. Signed-off-by: Chase Southwood Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott …