[lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon/f75375s.c: remove unnecessary (confusing) initialization

[Jean Delvare]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:11:37 -0700, Andrew Klossner wrote:
> f75375_probe calls i2c_get_clientdata to initialize the data pointer,
> but there isn't yet any client data to get, and the value is never
> used before the variable is assigned a new value seven lines later.

Correct, good catch.

> The call doesn't hurt anything and wastes only a couple of cycles.
> The reason to fix it is because this module serves as an example to
> hackers writing new hwmon drivers, and this part of the example is
> confusing.

Out of curiosity, why would this driver be used as an example rather
than any of other?

> Signed-off-by: Andrew Klossner <andrew at cesa.opbu.xerox.com>
> ---
>  drivers/hwmon/f75375s.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/f75375s.c b/drivers/hwmon/f75375s.c
> index 1692de3..18a1ba8 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/f75375s.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/f75375s.c
> @@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ static void f75375_init(struct i2c_client *client, struct f75375_data *data,
>  static int f75375_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
>  		const struct i2c_device_id *id)
>  {
> -	struct f75375_data *data = i2c_get_clientdata(client);
> +	struct f75375_data *data;
>  	struct f75375s_platform_data *f75375s_pdata = client->dev.platform_data;
>  	int err;
>  

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jean Delvare