On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 04:36:22PM -0400, Julia Lawall wrote:
On Sun, 21 Aug 2016, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
From: Markus Elfring elfring@users.sourceforge.net Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 21:26:18 +0200
Reduce the scope for the local variables to an if branch.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring elfring@users.sourceforge.net
sound/core/compress_offload.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/core/compress_offload.c b/sound/core/compress_offload.c index 583d407..b43aec5 100644 --- a/sound/core/compress_offload.c +++ b/sound/core/compress_offload.c @@ -545,14 +545,14 @@ static int snd_compress_check_input(struct snd_compr_params *params) static int snd_compr_set_params(struct snd_compr_stream *stream, unsigned long arg) {
- struct snd_compr_params *params;
- int retval;
- if (stream->runtime->state == SNDRV_PCM_STATE_OPEN) { /*
*/
- we should allow parameter change only when stream has been
- opened not in other cases
int retval;struct snd_compr_params *params;I don't like this at all. Local variables should be at the top of the function, not hiding under 4 lines of comments in the middle of the code.
I agree with you this, it doesn't help IMO as well