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From: Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 08:39:21 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [media] si2165: Refactoring for si2165_writereg_mask8()
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To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>

Am 27.12.2015 um 18:33 schrieb SF Markus Elfring:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 18:23:57 +0100
> 
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
> 1. Let us return directly if a call of the si2165_readreg8()
>    function failed.
> 
> 2. Reduce the scope for the local variables "ret" and "tmp" to one branch
>    of an if statement.
> 
> 3. Delete the jump label "err" then.
> 
> 4. Return the value from a call of the si2165_writereg8() function
>    without using an extra assignment for the variable "ret" at the end.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>

The patch looks fine.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>

Regards
Matthias

PS: I am going to switch to regmap, but this change is not yet polished
and until now does not touch this function.