linux-kernel - Re: staging: ks7010: Delete unnecessary uses of the variable "retval"

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2016 18:35:46 +0200
From:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: staging: ks7010: Delete unnecessary uses of the variable "retval"


> > * Do you really want to assign every return value from a function call
> >   to an extra variable before it is used again?
> 
> If it's a choice between 1) function call on many lines, 2) function call
> over 80 characters, and 3) extra variable, I definitely prefer the extra
> variable.

+1


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