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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 18:55:11 +0000
Subject: Re: staging: lustre: Delete unnecessary goto statements in six functions
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To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>, Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>, lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>

On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 19:49 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > I think there should _not_ be a hardened rule.
> I guess that it can become hard to achieve consensus on a precise rule.

Consensus isn't unanimity.

> I imagine that your feedback
> can cause further software development troubles if the acceptance for
> this update suggestion will really depend on the number of blank lines
> before a jump label.

<shrug>

The author of any particular bit of code can do
whatever they want.

Localized consistency is probably more valuable than
global consistency.