linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mfd: avoid two assignments if failures happen in tps65910_i2c

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:52:48 +0200
From:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Graeme Gregory <gg@...mlogic.co.uk>,
	Jorge Eduardo Candelaria <jedu@...mlogic.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd: avoid two assignments if failures happen in
 tps65910_i2c_probe

Hi Jesper,

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:22:26PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> In drivers/mfd/tps65910.c:tps65910_i2c_probe() there's potential for a
> tiny optimization.
> 
> We assign to init_data->irq and init_data->irq_base long before we
> need them, and there are two potential exits from the function before
> they are needed.
> 
> Moving the assignments below these two potential exits means we
> completely avoid doing them in these two (failure) cases.
Patch applied, thanks.

Cheers,
Samuel.

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