Re: [staging:staging-testing 41/41] drivers/staging/vt6655/baseband.c:1711:15: warning: The scope of the variable 'preamble' can be reduced. [variableScope]

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On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 08:43:40PM +0800, kbuild test robot wrote:
> tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git staging-testing
> head:   e7b6875944e61bec586ede80b95727cd55381e1e
> commit: e7b6875944e61bec586ede80b95727cd55381e1e [41/41] Staging: vt6655: Replace camel case variable names.
> 
> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> cppcheck warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
> 
> >> drivers/staging/vt6655/baseband.c:1711:15: warning: The scope of the variable 'preamble' can be reduced. [variableScope]
>     unsigned int preamble;
>                  ^
> >> drivers/staging/vt6655/baseband.c:1912:16: warning: The scope of the variable 'by_value' can be reduced. [variableScope]
> >>  unsigned char by_value;
>                   ^
>    drivers/staging/vt6655/baseband.c:1955:16: warning: The scope of the variable 'by_value' can be reduced. [variableScope]
> >>  unsigned char by_value;
>                   ^

Are we seriously going to take foolish things like this from cppcheck
seriously?

Please no, "reducing scope" is an interesting thing to consider, but
really, solves almost nothing.  It will do nothing but cause a lot of
pointless churn.

greg k-h
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