Re: [PATCH 5/8] regulator: pwm-regulator: Don't assign structure attributes right away

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Jun 08 2015 - 14:07:35 EST


On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 07:42:48PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> Perhaps this is just personal preference, but ...

Possibly...

> Prevents this kind of nonsense:

> this->is->just.silly = fetch_silly_value(&pointer);
> if (!this->is->just.silly) {
> printk("Silly value failed: %d\n", this->is->just.silly);
> return this->is->just.silly;
> }

But we don't have any of that code? Well, one if statement where we
check config.init_data but that's it. A temporary does help with things
like the above but we're not doing that in this driver are we?

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