Re: [PATCH 3/3] staging: r8188eu: Reorganize error handling in rtw_drv_init()

Nathan Chancellor
2021-08-12T23:14:03Z

On 8/12/2021 4:11 PM, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> On Thursday, August 12, 2021 10:40:27 PM CEST Nathan Chancellor wrote:
>> [...]
>> Looking at the error function as a whole, the error handling is odd
>> compared to the rest of the kernel, which prefers to set error codes on
>> goto paths, rather than a global "status" variable which determines the
>> error code at the end of the function and function calls in the case of
>> error.
>>
> "status" is not a global variable, instead it is a local variable with only
> in-function visibility and it has an automatic storage duration (i.e., it is
> allocated on the stack frame of the function and is destroyed when the stack
> is unwound at the return from the function).
>
> According to the above definition there's no difference in storage classes
> between the old "status" and the new "ret" (the latter being a merely rename
> of the former). However, "ret" is a more appropriate name for that variable.
> Furthermore, your handling of errors and return value is more consistent with
> best practices.

Sorry, I meant "global" with regards to the function (as in "was there
an error in the function"), rather than "global" as a storage class.

> Therefore, apart that minor misuse of the "global" class in your commit
> message, it's a nice work and so...

I am happy to redo the commit message if you and others so desire.

> Acked-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>

Thank you for the review and ack!

Cheers,
Nathan