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From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Ben Romer <benjamin.romer@unisys.com>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	sparmaintainer@unisys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: use common return path
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 10:32:49 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151202050248.GC3692@sudip-pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151201155724.GG18797@mwanda>

On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 06:57:24PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 09:54:50AM -0500, Ben Romer wrote:
> > On 12/01/2015 03:00 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > >Doing One Err style error handling is often a mistake but it's ok here.
> > 
> > Why is it okay here? I don't understand why this function would be
> > any different than the other places where the code used a goto.
> 
> What I meant was that I'm generally opposed to "common exit paths".
> Mixing all the exit paths together often makes the code more complicated
> and leads to errors.  That makes sense from a common sense perspective

By "common exit path" do you mean mixing up of success and error paths?

regards
sudip

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-02  5:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-01  6:15 [PATCH] staging: unisys: use common return path Sudip Mukherjee
2015-12-01  8:00 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-12-01  8:06   ` Dan Carpenter
2015-12-01  9:57     ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-12-01 16:05       ` Dan Carpenter
2015-12-02  4:49         ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-12-01 14:54   ` Ben Romer
2015-12-01 15:57     ` Dan Carpenter
2015-12-01 16:16       ` Ben Romer
2015-12-02  5:01         ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-12-02  5:02       ` Sudip Mukherjee [this message]
2015-12-02  6:20         ` Dan Carpenter

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