netdev - Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] mcastv6: Local variable shadows function argument

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Date:	Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:26:30 +0200
From:	Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>
To:	David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] mcastv6: Local variable shadows function
	argument

| pmc->idev should be equal to idev, so you should be able
| to simply remove the extra declaration and leave the other
| code as it is-- i.e., a 1-line change.
| 
Thank you for checking - so it would look like this?
If this is correct, it would resolve shadowing the passed idev:

--- a/net/ipv6/mcast.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/mcast.c
@@ -2107,7 +2107,6 @@ static int ip6_mc_add_src(struct inet6_d
 		for (j=0; j<i; j++)
 			(void) ip6_mc_del1_src(pmc, sfmode, &psfsrc[i]);
 	} else if (isexclude != (pmc->mca_sfcount[MCAST_EXCLUDE] != 0)) {
-		struct inet6_dev *idev = pmc->idev;
 		struct ip6_sf_list *psf;
 
 		/* filter mode change */
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