"previous" is a better name for the variable storing the previous asynchronous request, better than the opaque name "data" atleast. We see that we assign the return status to the returned variable on all code paths, so we might as well just do that immediately after calling mmc_finalize_areq(). Reviewed-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mmc/core/core.c | 13 +++++-------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/core.c b/drivers/mmc/core/core.c index 926e0fde07d7..b8468950e59d 100644 --- a/drivers/mmc/core/core.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/core/core.c @@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ struct mmc_async_req *mmc_start_areq(struct mmc_host *host, { enum mmc_blk_status status; int start_err = 0; - struct mmc_async_req *data = host->areq; + struct mmc_async_req *previous = host->areq; /* Prepare a new request */ if (areq) @@ -691,13 +691,12 @@ struct mmc_async_req *mmc_start_areq(struct mmc_host *host, /* Finalize previous request */ status = mmc_finalize_areq(host); + if (ret_stat) + *ret_stat = status; /* The previous request is still going on... */ - if (status == MMC_BLK_NEW_REQUEST) { - if (ret_stat) - *ret_stat = status; + if (status == MMC_BLK_NEW_REQUEST) return NULL; - } /* Fine so far, start the new request! */ if (status == MMC_BLK_SUCCESS && areq) @@ -716,9 +715,7 @@ struct mmc_async_req *mmc_start_areq(struct mmc_host *host, else host->areq = areq; - if (ret_stat) - *ret_stat = status; - return data; + return previous; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(mmc_start_areq); -- 2.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html