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Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: touchscreen: imx6ul_tsc: Use 'dev' instead of
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On 01. 10. 19 1:08, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 05:02:11PM +0800, Anson Huang wrote:
>> Add helper variable dev = &pdev->dev to simply the code.
> 
> Do we get any code savings from this?

I noticed Anson submitted similar patches into various other subsystems.
Here [1] is a very detailed response from David Laight shedding some light
on this topic.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/24/151

>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@nxp.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/input/touchscreen/imx6ul_tsc.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
>>   1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)