On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:08:54AM +0100, Markus Elfring wrote: > > This makes it hard to review any patches or follow discussion... > > You shared also special software development opinions about extra variable > initialisations occasionally, didn't you? I generally put everything at the top of the function... I don't have a well developed philosophy for when variables should be declared with a smaller scope. int ret; <-- this should always be function scope Probably the other people are right that making scopes shorter is more important when the function is very long. regards, dan carpenter