On 15/06/17, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, Dawid Kurek <dawikur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 15/06/17, Jani Nikula wrote: > >> Separate declaration and initialization would lead to a cleaner patch > >> and result. > > > > I saw combining declaration and initialization is quite common, i.e. in > > drm_atomic file. Personally, I also prefer those in one statement. But yes, it > > looks cleaner here, in two lines. > > I'd say the rule of thumb is that combined declaration and > initialization is fine if the initialization is trivial, in particular > can never fail. If you need to check the return value, like in this > case, I'd prefer separate initialization. > Yeah, makes sense. If you need to check then it exceeds simple initialization, and then it is not declare&initialize. Yes, now I see it. Thanks a lot, Dawid --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel