On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 03:50:27PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > >> The variable "status" will be set to an appropriate value a bit later. > >> Thus omit the explicit initialisation at the beginning. > > > > What did you try to achieve by this patch? > > I would like to optimise the affected source files a bit. > Would you like to clarify any measurable effects around the implementation > detail when various variables will only be initialised immediately > before they will be read again? Compiler will drop this variable initialization by itself because there are no reads between this variable initialization and write. I recommend you to take a look on the assembly code and ensure it by yourself. The proposed change won't affect performance at all. > > Regards, > Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
