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From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:31:58 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] net: visually shrink eth_platform_get_mac_address()
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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2018-07-18 18:28 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 06:10:31PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
>>
>> Initialize the variables with proper values so that we save a few
>> lines of code before we extend this function in the follow-up patches.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
>> ---
>>  net/ethernet/eth.c | 11 +++--------
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/ethernet/eth.c b/net/ethernet/eth.c
>> index ee28440f57c5..da8530879e1e 100644
>> --- a/net/ethernet/eth.c
>> +++ b/net/ethernet/eth.c
>> @@ -527,15 +527,10 @@ unsigned char * __weak arch_get_platform_mac_address(void)
>>
>>  int eth_platform_get_mac_address(struct device *dev, u8 *mac_addr)
>>  {
>> -     const unsigned char *addr;
>> -     struct device_node *dp;
>> +     struct device_node *dp = dev_is_pci(dev) ?
>> +                     pci_device_to_OF_node(to_pci_dev(dev)) : dev->of_node;
>> +     const unsigned char *addr = NULL;
>
> Hi Bartosz
>
> You are now in the net subsystem, which has its own set of additional
> coding styles. One of them is reverse Christmas tree.
>
> You might want to read Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt.
>
>     Andrew

Hi Andrew,

it's still reverse Christmas tree in this patch except that now we're
taking the length of the variable + initializer into account. I'm not
sure if this is the right approach though.

Bart