Re: [PATCH] staging: ccree: local variable "dev" not required

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Oct 05 2017 - 14:00:41 EST


On Thu, 2017-10-05 at 10:07 +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 10:12 PM, <sunil.m@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > There is no need to create a local pointer variable "dev" and
> > pass it various API's, instead use plat_dev which is enumerated
> > by platform core on successful probe.
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> I'm sorry but I don't understand what is the problem you are trying to solve or
> what is the improvement suggested.
>
> Why is having a local variable undesirable? I think having it makes
> the code more readable, not less.

IMO: The local variable is _not_ undesirable.
It does make the code more readable and
shortens line lengths too.