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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Laurent Navet <laurent.navet@gmail.com>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: gdm72xx: remove unneeded test
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 01:41:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1432802477.2846.209.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1505281031250.2464@hadrien>

On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 10:33 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Thu, 28 May 2015, Joe Perches wrote:
> I think these are very equivalent style to
> > the repeated:
> >
> > 	ret = foo();
> > 	if (ret < 0)
> > 		return ret;
> > ...
> > 	ret = bar();
> > 	if (ret < 0)
> > 		return ret;
> >
> > 	return ret;
> >
> > and people seem to prefer changing those.
> 
> Maybe if there is a whole sequence of them, it it is reasonable to keep
> them.  But if there is just one, it seems complicated for nothing.

Agree with that.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/2/321

> In the
> big scheme of things, though, there are probably better things one could
> do than changing all of them.

Agree with that too.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-28  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-27 20:25 [PATCH] staging: gdm72xx: remove unneeded test Laurent Navet
2015-05-27 20:30 ` Joe Perches
2015-05-28  5:43   ` Julia Lawall
2015-05-28  5:48     ` Joe Perches
2015-05-28 16:21       ` Julia Lawall
2015-05-28 16:33         ` Joe Perches
2015-05-28  7:14   ` Dan Carpenter
2015-05-28  8:06     ` Joe Perches
2015-05-28  8:33       ` Julia Lawall
2015-05-28  8:41         ` Joe Perches [this message]
2015-05-27 20:46 ` Fabio Estevam
2015-05-28  7:20   ` Dan Carpenter

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