Re: [PATCH] dgnc: move more repeating code under 'failed' label

["Giedrius Statkevičius" <giedrius.statkevicius@gmail.com>]

On 2015.03.09 15:06, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Added Matteo to the CC list because he was working on this function as
> well and I remembered something I wanted to tell him.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 07:46:37PM +0200, Giedrius Statkevičius wrote:
>> Currently the label is only used to return a error code to the caller but more
>> repeating code is before each "goto failed;" thus we can move that code to the
>> label. Also, remove some empty unneeded lines together with this patch in those
>> if's and at the end of dgnc_found_board().
>>
> 
> This function totally sucks.
> 
> This patch is useless because we will never use the brd->state in the
> cases where we fail.  We shouldn't be saving inconsistent crap into
> dgnc_Board[] because that is barf inducing ugly even though it's not a
> bug given that we don't use it.
> 
> Only do:
> 
> 	dgnc_Board[dgnc_NumBoards] = brd;
> 
> when the brd is fully configured at the end of the dgnc_found_board()
> function.
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter

First time I've made this patch I was purely looking at this from a
cosmetical point. But now that I've looked more at this I see that you
have a good point.  I've made a patch that tries to address this issue
and posted it in another thread.

-- 
Thanks,
Giedrius