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From: Saurav Girepunje <saurav.girepunje@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: fabioaiuto83@gmail.com, ross.schm.dev@gmail.com,
	marcocesati@gmail.com, insafonov@gmail.com,
	linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	saurav.girepunje@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: rtl8723bs: os_dep: simplify the return statement
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 22:41:45 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5de75b10-b46d-d5da-e60d-0d2e10bca378@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YWhDb5/ZDUUs9gb7@kroah.com>



On 14/10/21 8:19 pm, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 08:10:00PM +0530, Saurav Girepunje wrote:
>> Remove goto statement where function simply return value without doing
>> any cleanup action.
>>
>> Simplify the return using goto label to avoid unneeded 'if' condition
>> check.
>>
>> Remove the unneeded and redundant check of variable on goto.
>>
>> Remove the assignment of NULL on local variable.
> 
> You are saying _what_ you are doing here, but not _why_ you are doing
> this.  For example, this last sentance does not make sense, why would
> you want to do such a thing (hint, I know, but you need to explain it in
> the changelog...)
> 
> It's getting better, but the changelog still needs work.  Often times
> that's the hardest part of writing a kernel patch.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 

Thanks Greg for review. I will work on changelog and will send v4.

Regards,
Saurav 

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-22 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-14 14:40 [PATCH v3] staging: rtl8723bs: os_dep: simplify the return statement Saurav Girepunje
2021-10-14 14:49 ` Greg KH
2021-10-22 17:11   ` Saurav Girepunje [this message]
2021-10-14 14:57 ` Dan Carpenter
2021-10-22 17:14   ` Saurav Girepunje
2021-10-15  9:15 ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-10-22 17:18   ` Saurav Girepunje

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