netdev - Re: [net-next 06/15] i40e: Move some variable declarations out of a loop

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:31:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akeem.g.abodunrin@...el.com
Cc:	aaron.f.brown@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com,
	sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 06/15] i40e: Move some variable declarations out of
 a loop

From: "Abodunrin, Akeem G" <akeem.g.abodunrin@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:56:19 +0000

> This is done because other codes have to use it before the loop...
> 
> Hope you understand the reason for this - and that is how it supposed to be originally, we have to increase the scope of the variables so that other code that are not in the loop can use it.

What codes?  I looked at the patches after this one and none of them use
the variables.

If anything you should make this change in the patch that needs it, not
beforehand.
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