netdev - Re: [PATCH] wireless: zd1211rw: remove redundant assignment of pointer 'q'

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Date:   Wed, 31 Jan 2018 17:57:47 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>,
        Ulrich Kunitz <kune@...ne-taler.de>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "open list:TI WILINK WIRELES..." <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: zd1211rw: remove redundant assignment of
 pointer 'q'

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 02:58:57PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 8:25 PM, Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> >
> > Pointer q is initialized and then almost immediately afterwards being
> > re-assigned the same value. Remove the second redundant assignment.
> >
> 
> Don't you see strange that in the same context of the patch two users
> of q are present?
> 
> How did you test this?
> 

The patch is obviously correct, I don't understand the question.

regards,
dan carpenter