Re: [PATCH RFC next 2/2] net: rfkill: gpio: simplify code flow

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 14:42 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 01:17:04PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 11:46 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > When assigning directly to the pointer contained in the driver data the
> > > local variable can be dropped together with the extra assignment to it.
> > 
> > I'm not really sure I see the big benefit of this? It doesn't really
> > seem to make the code much easier to read/follow.
> > 
> > I also don't really see the (perceived) objection with "dynamic memory"
> > though since that memory is freed pretty much immediately as soon as we
> > return a non-zero value from this function ... the function itself
> > allocates the memory, and clearly we return without it ever being able
> > to use it, so ...
> > 
> > Anyway - I might apply this for the few removed lines of code, but only
> > with a better commit log.
> Alternatively squash it into patch 1/2 and add:
> 
> 	While touching the code simplify it a bit to not need a local
> 	variable for the gpio descriptors.

Too late, already applied & pushed out the other one.

johannes