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SubjectRe: [media] winbond-cir: Move a variable assignment in wbcir_tx()
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>> * How do you think about to avoid a variable assignment in case
>> that this memory allocation failed anyhow?
>
> There is no memory allocation that can fail at this point.

Do you really know the failure probability for a call of the
function "kmalloc" (within the function "wbcir_tx") under all
possible run time situations?


>> * Do you care for data access locality?
>
> Not unless you can show measurable performance improvements?

Did any software developer (before me) dare anything in this direction?

Regards,
Markus

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