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Subject: Re: [media] winbond-cir: Move a variable assignment in wbcir_tx()
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>> Move the assignment for the local variable "data" behind the source code
>> for a memory allocation by this function.
> 
> Sorry, I can't see what the point is?

* How do you think about to avoid a variable assignment in case
  that this memory allocation failed anyhow?

* Do you care for data access locality?

Regards,
Markus