Re: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: addi-data: clean-up variable use in hwdrv_apci035.c

[Ian Abbott]

On 2014-02-25 08:15, Chase Southwood wrote:
> The static variable ui_Command is as of right now being cleared to a
> value of zero between everytime that it writes to a port and then takes a
> new value from a port.  Seems like this zeroing is unnecessary, so we can
> just remove these lines.

The description is slightly wrong as the variable isn't static storage 
class.

> Signed-off-by: Chase Southwood <chase.southwood@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This sort of thing seems like a copy/paste sort of error to me, but there
> could as easily be some reason here that I'm missing that this is needed
> here.  My first impression, however, was that this extra clearing is
> useless.

Yes, the extra clearing was useless.  There are also some useless 
initializers for this variable and others.

Fine, apart from the description.

Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>

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