linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/8] regulator: pwm-regulator: Don't assign structure attributes right away

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Date:	Mon, 8 Jun 2015 19:07:18 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel@...inux.com, lgirdwood@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] regulator: pwm-regulator: Don't assign structure
 attributes right away

On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 07:42:48PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> Perhaps this is just personal preference, but ...

Possibly...

> Prevents this kind of nonsense:

> 	this->is->just.silly = fetch_silly_value(&pointer);
> 	if (!this->is->just.silly) {
> 		printk("Silly value failed: %d\n", this->is->just.silly);
> 		return this->is->just.silly;
> 	}

But we don't have any of that code?  Well, one if statement where we
check config.init_data but that's it.  A temporary does help with things
like the above but we're not doing that in this driver are we?

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