Re: [media] tuners: One check less in m88rs6000t_get_rf_strength() after error detection

Julia Lawall
2015-12-28T10:36:03Z

On Mon, 28 Dec 2015, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

> >> Move the jump label directly before the desired log statement
> >> so that the variable "ret" will not be checked once more
> >> after it was determined that a function call failed.
> >
> > Why not avoid both unnecessary ifs
>
> I would find such a fine-tuning also nice in principle at more source code places.
>
>
> > and the enormous ugliness of a label inside an if by making two returns:
> > a return 0 for success and a dev_dbg and return ret for failure?
>
> How should your suggestion finally work when the desired execution success
> can be determined for such functions only after several other calls succeeded?

Not idea what this means, but immediate return 0 followed by various code
for reacting to an error is very common, so it looks like it should be
possible here.

julia