Re: [PATCH 5/9] staging: ks7010: Delete unnecessary uses of the variable "retval"

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Wed Jul 20 2016 - 11:53:49 EST


On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 08:56:59PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2016, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
>
> > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 18:15:23 +0200
> >
> > Some return values can also be directly used for various condition checks.
> > Thus remove a local variable for intermediate assignments.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c | 81 +++++++++++++++---------------------
> > 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c
> > index eea18fb..b3ca8e2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c
> > @@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ static int ks7010_sdio_write(struct ks_wlan_private *priv, unsigned int address,
> > void ks_wlan_hw_sleep_doze_request(struct ks_wlan_private *priv)
> > {
> > unsigned char rw_data;
> > - int retval;
> >
> > DPRINTK(4, "\n");
> >
> > @@ -99,9 +98,10 @@ void ks_wlan_hw_sleep_doze_request(struct ks_wlan_private *priv)
> >
> > if (atomic_read(&priv->sleepstatus.status) == 0) {
> > rw_data = GCR_B_DOZE;
> > - retval =
> > - ks7010_sdio_write(priv, GCR_B, &rw_data, sizeof(rw_data));
> > - if (retval) {
> > + if (ks7010_sdio_write(priv,
> > + GCR_B,
> > + &rw_data,
> > + sizeof(rw_data))) {
>
> A multi-line function call in an if test does not look nice at all. The
> original code was an easy-to-read expectable pattern.

I agree. I am not strict on the 80 char limit, especially in cases like
the above.

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