I believe this makes it a little more clear what is happening. Also could provide a potential speedup if the span doesn't need to be constantly dereferenced (although an optimizer might make this moot). Regardless, this change doesn't hurt. Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/905/ Signed-off-by: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com> git-svn-id: http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/dahdi/linux/trunk@9362 a0bf4364-ded3-4de4-8d8a-66a801d63aff