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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>, linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] blk-throttle: Move three assignments for the variable "ret" in tg_set_max()
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:00:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <130ce081-e9a2-4744-c74b-b73bea5ae98c@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170123091510.GA3517@linux-x5ow.site>

>> @@ -1327,27 +1327,30 @@ static ssize_t tg_set_max(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
>>  			break;
>>  		ctx.body += len;
>>  
>> -		ret = -EINVAL;
>>  		p = tok;
>>  		strsep(&p, "=");
>> -		if (!p || (sscanf(p, "%llu", &val) != 1 && strcmp(p, "max")))
>> +		if (!p || (sscanf(p, "%llu", &val) != 1 && strcmp(p, "max"))) {
>> +			ret = -EINVAL;
>>  			goto out_finish;
>> +		}
> 
> Sorry, I don't like this patch. We know the next error if we encounter one
> will be EINVAL until we change it.

Thanks for your constructive feedback.


> Your patch doesn't introduce a functual change and doesn't improve readability,
> so I don't really see a point for it.

We have got different preferences for the placement of error code settings.
Do you care about run time changes there?

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-23 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-22  8:30 [PATCH 0/5] block: Fine-tuning for five function implementations SF Markus Elfring
2017-01-22  8:31 ` [PATCH 1/5] blk-throttle: Move three assignments for the variable "ret" in tg_set_max() SF Markus Elfring
2017-01-23  9:15   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-23 10:00     ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2017-01-23 11:47       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-23 12:06         ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-01-23 15:17           ` Jens Axboe
2017-01-22  8:32 ` [PATCH 2/5] blk-throttle: Move an assignment for the variable "ret" in tg_set_conf() SF Markus Elfring
2017-01-23  9:16   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-22  8:33 ` [PATCH 3/5] blk-throttle: Adjust two function calls together with a variable assignment SF Markus Elfring
2017-01-23  9:20   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-23 15:14     ` Jens Axboe
2017-01-22  8:34 ` [PATCH 4/5] cfq-iosched: Move an assignment for the variable "ret" in __cfqg_set_weight_device() SF Markus Elfring
2017-01-22  8:35 ` [PATCH 5/5] cfq-iosched: Adjust one function call together with a variable assignment SF Markus Elfring
2017-01-23  9:21   ` Johannes Thumshirn

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