On Sun, 2016-08-21 at 21:45 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > Reduce the scope for the local variables to an if branch. [] > diff --git a/sound/core/compress_offload.c b/sound/core/compress_offload.c [] > @@ -545,14 +545,14 @@ static int snd_compress_check_input(struct snd_compr_params *params) > static int > snd_compr_set_params(struct snd_compr_stream *stream, unsigned long arg) > { > - struct snd_compr_params *params; > - int retval; > - > if (stream->runtime->state == SNDRV_PCM_STATE_OPEN) { Likely better not reducing variable scope but changing: if (stream->runtime->state == SNDRV_PCM_STATE_OPEN) to if (stream->runtime->state != SNDRV_PCM_STATE_OPEN) return -EPERM; and unindenting the remainder of the code one level instead. -- 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