linux-kernel - Re: [media] winbond-cir: Move a variable assignment in wbcir

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Message-ID: <1a68a0e8-6d56-d9c1-058b-cf9cd8122acb@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:32:20 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     David Härdeman <david@...deman.nu>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Sean Young <sean@...s.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [media] winbond-cir: Move a variable assignment in wbcir_tx()

>> Move the assignment for the local variable "data" behind the source code
>> for a memory allocation by this function.
> 
> Sorry, I can't see what the point is?

* How do you think about to avoid a variable assignment in case
  that this memory allocation failed anyhow?

* Do you care for data access locality?

Regards,
Markus