Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Staging: slicoss: Get rid of redundant pointer variable

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On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:52:43PM +0530, Niranjan Dighe wrote:
> Replace string directly in place of format string and remove pointer
> variable which was used just once.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Niranjan Dighe <niranjan.dighe@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c b/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c
> index c2bda1d..f3110f7 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c
> @@ -98,7 +98,6 @@
>  #include "slic.h"
>  
>  static uint slic_first_init = 1;
> -static char *slic_banner = "Alacritech SLIC Technology(tm) Server and Storage Accelerator (Non-Accelerated)";
>  
>  static char *slic_proc_version = "2.0.351  2006/07/14 12:26:00";
>  
> @@ -3046,7 +3045,8 @@ static int slic_entry_probe(struct pci_dev *pcidev,
>  		return err;
>  
>  	if (did_version++ == 0) {
> -		dev_info(&pcidev->dev, "%s\n", slic_banner);
> +		dev_info(&pcidev->dev,
> +		"Alacritech SLIC Technology(tm) Server and Storage Accelerator (Non-Accelerated)\n");

Why make this change?  What's wrong with the original code?

There is the issue that driver should be quiet, so really, you can just
delete all of this nonsense, but that's a different issue here...

thanks,

greg k-h
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