Re: [PATCH] watchdog: ts72xx_wdt: Kill superfluous variable in remove

[Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 07:59:16AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 02:57:12PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > There is no need to store the return value of misc_deregister() in a
> > variable. Instead we can just return the value directly.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/watchdog/ts72xx_wdt.c | 6 +-----
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/ts72xx_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/ts72xx_wdt.c
> > index afa9d6ef353a..dee9c6cbe6df 100644
> > --- a/drivers/watchdog/ts72xx_wdt.c
> > +++ b/drivers/watchdog/ts72xx_wdt.c
> > @@ -428,11 +428,7 @@ static int ts72xx_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  
> >  static int ts72xx_wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  {
> > -	int error;
> > -
> > -	error = misc_deregister(&ts72xx_wdt_miscdev);
> > -
> > -	return error;
> > +	return misc_deregister(&ts72xx_wdt_miscdev);
> 
> Is that worth it, and does it even reduce code size ?

Well, it makes that particular function look better.

> Converting the driver to use the watchdog infrastructure would make much more sense
> (if someone can test the result).

I agree that converting makes sense, but that is subject of a separate patch.