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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Andrew Bennieston <andrew.bennieston@citrix.com>
Cc: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 net-next 2/5] xen-netback: Add support for multiple queues
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:22:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53074510.2040408@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53074490.8030806@citrix.com>

>>> +    char *xspath = NULL;
>>
>> I don't think you need the NULL init here. xspath is set in both
>> branches of the if statement below.
> 
> Indeed, but I prefer to initialise things sanely where possible. It
> makes it easier to spot problems with later modifications of the code,
> e.g. if one of those branches changed.

Kernel style (but probably not documented anywhere) is to only
initialize locals were necessary.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-21 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-17 17:57 [PATCH V4 net-next 0/5] xen-net{back, front}: Multiple transmit and receive queues Andrew J. Bennieston
2014-02-17 17:57 ` [PATCH V4 net-next 1/5] xen-netback: Factor queue-specific data into queue struct Andrew J. Bennieston
2014-02-21 12:08   ` Paul Durrant
2014-02-21 12:22     ` Andrew Bennieston
2014-02-21 12:24       ` Paul Durrant
2014-02-17 17:57 ` [PATCH V4 net-next 2/5] xen-netback: Add support for multiple queues Andrew J. Bennieston
2014-02-21 12:13   ` Paul Durrant
2014-02-21 12:20     ` Andrew Bennieston
2014-02-21 12:22       ` David Vrabel [this message]
2014-02-21 12:24         ` Andrew Bennieston
2014-02-21 13:16       ` David Laight
2014-02-17 17:57 ` [PATCH V4 net-next 3/5] xen-netfront: Factor queue-specific data into queue struct Andrew J. Bennieston
2014-02-17 18:04   ` David Vrabel
2014-02-17 17:57 ` [PATCH V4 net-next 4/5] xen-netfront: Add support for multiple queues Andrew J. Bennieston
2014-02-17 18:04   ` David Vrabel
2014-02-17 17:58 ` [PATCH V4 net-next 5/5] xen-net{back, front}: Document multi-queue feature in netif.h Andrew J. Bennieston
2014-02-17 18:06   ` [PATCH V4 net-next 5/5] xen-net{back,front}: " David Vrabel
2014-02-21 12:22   ` Paul Durrant
2014-02-21 12:24     ` Andrew Bennieston

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