Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/10] perf/hv24x7: Whitespace cleanup

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 20:08:01 -0700

On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 18:53 -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> Fix minor whitespace damages.

If you are going to do whitespace cleaning,
please verify the patches with scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict.

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c
[]
> @@ -1077,7 +1079,6 @@ static unsigned long single_24x7_request(struct perf_event *event, u64 *count)
>  	}
>  
>  	resb = &result_buffer->results[0];
> -
>  	*count = be64_to_cpu(resb->elements[0].element_data[0]);
>  out:
>  	return ret;

Does this deletion make the code easier to read?

It might be better just to use:

	be64 val;
	...
	val = result_buffer->results[0].elements[0].element_data[0];
	*count = be64_to_cpu(val);