On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 02:39:23AM +0530, Nishka Dasgupta wrote: > On 31/05/19 2:25 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 02:17:18AM +0530, Nishka Dasgupta wrote: > > > Remove variable vpfe_dev and replace it with its value (since the > > > function otherwise uses values directly instead of local variables). > > > > This says _what_ you do. But we can see that in the patch itself. > > > > You need to say _why_ you are doing this. > > > > There's no need for this change at all. Again, as I have said before, > > we write code for developers to read first, the compiler second. By > > making these types of changes you are making it harder to > > read/understand by a developer, and providing absolutely no benifit to > > the compiler at all. > > > > So it's actually making the code worse! > > > > not good at all. > > > > Please reconsider this type of change, as I keep asking you to. > > Okay. In this case I thought it wouldn't make it worse since the function is > low on local variables anyway? Clearly I was wrong, so I won't count this > case as an exception in future. Did you check the object file output to verify this? Try it and see :)
