Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: slicoss: remove redundant initialization of idx

[Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>]

On 30.10.2017 19:04, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 13:38:09 +0000, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>>
>> Variable idx is being initialized and later on over-written by
>> a new value in a do-loop without the initial value ever being
>> read. Hence the initializion is redundant and can be removed.
>> Cleans up clang warning:
>>
>> drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/slicoss.c:358:15: warning: Value
>> stored to 'idx' during its initialization is never read
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/slicoss.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/slicoss.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/slicoss.c
>> index 15a8096c60df..ac8004186fa8 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/slicoss.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/alacritech/slicoss.c
>> @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ static void slic_xmit_complete(struct slic_device *sdev)
>>  {
>>  	struct slic_tx_queue *txq = &sdev->txq;
>>  	struct net_device *dev = sdev->netdev;
>> -	unsigned int idx = txq->done_idx;
>> +	unsigned int idx;
>>  	struct slic_tx_buffer *buff;
>>  	unsigned int frames = 0;
>>  	unsigned int bytes = 0;
> 
> You should probably reorder the variables now so they stay longest to
> shortest.
> 

I agree. While the change itself is ok, it would be nice if
we could keep the order of the variables by length. 

Regards,
Lino