Re: [PATCH 9/9] staging: ks7010: Delete three unnecessary variable initialisations

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On Thu, 21 Jul 2016, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

> >> @@ -323,14 +323,14 @@ static void tx_device_task(void *dev)
> >>  {
> >>  	struct ks_wlan_private *priv = (struct ks_wlan_private *)dev;
> >>  	struct tx_device_buffer *sp;
> >> -	int rc = 0;
> >>
> >>  	DPRINTK(4, "\n");
> >>  	if (cnt_txqbody(priv) > 0
> >>  	    && atomic_read(&priv->psstatus.status) != PS_SNOOZE) {
> >>  		sp = &priv->tx_dev.tx_dev_buff[priv->tx_dev.qhead];
> >>  		if (priv->dev_state >= DEVICE_STATE_BOOT) {
> >> -			rc = write_to_device(priv, sp->sendp, sp->size);
> >> +			int rc = write_to_device(priv, sp->sendp, sp->size);
> >
> > This does not look appealing to me, neither the declaration in the middle
> > of the function, nor the intiialization to the result of a complex
> > expression, nor the separation of the call and the error checking code by
> > a blank line.  There is nothing wrong with having the rc variable be
> > declared at the the top of the function, in its normal place.
>
> * Do you occasionally care for a refactoring like "Reduce scope of variable"?
>
>   http://refactoring.com/catalog/reduceScopeOfVariable.html

Probably not.  Certainly not in this case.

> * How do you think about to remove the extra assignment at the beginning
>   of this function implementation?

If the value is not useful, then it can go.

julia

> Regards,
> Markus
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