linux-kernel - Re: staging: ks7010: Delete three unnecessary variable initialisations

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Message-ID: <3d9736a8-1afd-3c9d-a03a-d4093b8ae1c0@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2016 16:16:00 +0200
From:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
	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 three unnecessary variable
 initialisations

>> * Do you occasionally care for a refactoring like "Reduce scope of variable"?
>>
>>   http://refactoring.com/catalog/reduceScopeOfVariable.html
> 
> Probably not.  Certainly not in this case.

In which use cases would the suggested change pattern be more interesting
for you?

Regards,
Markus