From 6d9e2bc5e90a4db81f879f5e79b5470ea676f587 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Willmer <alex@moreati.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 15:08:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] De-duplicate initialisation of ConnectionBase._connected
 (#79256)

The same value is unconditionally set 4 lines down.
---
 lib/ansible/plugins/connection/__init__.py | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/__init__.py
index daa683ce30b..bcce03ae625 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/__init__.py
@@ -72,8 +72,6 @@ class ConnectionBase(AnsiblePlugin):
         if not hasattr(self, '_display'):
             # Backwards compat: self._display isn't really needed, just import the global display and use that.
             self._display = display
-        if not hasattr(self, '_connected'):
-            self._connected = False
 
         self.success_key = None
         self.prompt = None