On Sun, 3 Jan 2016, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 09:19:32 +0100
>
> Pass a value directly in a call of the function "regmap_update_bits"
> instead of an extra initialisation for one local variable at the beginning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
> ---
> drivers/rtc/rtc-ab-b5ze-s3.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-ab-b5ze-s3.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-ab-b5ze-s3.c
> index 88f1d0b..fed52d0 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-ab-b5ze-s3.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-ab-b5ze-s3.c
> @@ -561,7 +561,6 @@ static int _abb5zes3_rtc_set_timer(struct device *dev,
> struct rtc_wkalrm *alarm,
> {
> struct abb5zes3_rtc_data *data = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
> u8 regs[ABB5ZES3_TIMA_SEC_LEN];
> - u8 mask = ABB5ZES3_REG_TIM_CLK_TAC0 | ABB5ZES3_REG_TIM_CLK_TAC1;
> int ret;
>
> /* Program given number of seconds to Timer A registers */
> @@ -575,7 +574,9 @@ static int _abb5zes3_rtc_set_timer(struct device *dev,
> struct rtc_wkalrm *alarm,
>
> /* Configure Timer A as a watchdog timer */
> ret = regmap_update_bits(data->regmap, ABB5ZES3_REG_TIM_CLK,
> - mask, ABB5ZES3_REG_TIM_CLK_TAC1);
> + ABB5ZES3_REG_TIM_CLK_TAC0
> + | ABB5ZES3_REG_TIM_CLK_TAC1,
> + ABB5ZES3_REG_TIM_CLK_TAC1);
This doesn't seem like an improvement. The concept (mask) has
disappeared, the binary operation is strangely broken, and the function
call has one more line of arguments, which all look sort of the same and
thus are hard to understand.
Don't underestimate the value of naming things.
julia
> if (ret)
> dev_err(dev, "%s: failed to update timer\n", __func__);
>
> --
> 2.6.3
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