netdev - Re: [PATCH spi for-5.4 1/5] spi: Use an abbreviated pointer to ctlr->cur_msg in __spi_pump

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Message-ID: <CA+h21hpgi7-dJ-QoRBEQorcRyEuhqhKixpFK5fGxOnZxTHi-4g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Aug 2019 22:36:43 +0300
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     Hubert Feurstein <h.feurstein@...il.com>, mlichvar@...hat.com,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH spi for-5.4 1/5] spi: Use an abbreviated pointer to
 ctlr->cur_msg in __spi_pump_messages

Hi Mark,

On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 21:21, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 09:25:56PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
>
> >       /* Extract head of queue */
> > -     ctlr->cur_msg =
> > -             list_first_entry(&ctlr->queue, struct spi_message, queue);
> > +     mesg = list_first_entry(&ctlr->queue, struct spi_message, queue);
> > +     ctlr->cur_msg = mesg;
>
> Why mesg when the existing code uses msg as an abbreviation here?

Does it matter? I took from spi_finalize_current_message which also uses mesg.