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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] cpupower: Remove redundant error check
Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 01:42:55 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140517224255.GJ15585@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+MoWDqriZojBJAaxSjjFXEf1rpxDLqtsiuYYsRqDwtY1L6QyA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:31:29AM +0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> >
> > I am currently involved in a number of threads, not just yours, where I
> > am encouraging people to replace ambiguous returns with "return 0;".
> > This is my life now.
> So maybe you like this list of 160 places in which the return variable
> is initialized and only used as parameter to return(The list look
> good, but I haven't reviewed all 160, so there could be problems):
> http://pastebin.com/5kAbCP2e

Fantastic!  :)  These things are easy to review because if it's wrong
then the compile will break.

> 
> Does it worth doing something about those trivial cases?
> 
> Do you have more examples of ambiguous returns, so I can help you hunt them?

The main thing is what your check finds.  If you know that ret is zero
then return zero.

regards,
dan carpenter


      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-17 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-17 18:22 [PATCH 2/4] cpupower: Remove redundant error check Peter Senna Tschudin
2014-05-17 20:22 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-05-17 21:34   ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2014-05-17 21:56     ` Dan Carpenter
2014-05-17 22:31       ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2014-05-17 22:42         ` Dan Carpenter [this message]

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