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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Laurent Navet <laurent.navet@gmail.com>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: gdm72xx: remove unneeded test
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 10:14:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150528071444.GW11588@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1432758608.2846.169.camel@perches.com>

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 01:30:08PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 22:25 +0200, Laurent Navet wrote:
> > The same code is executed regardless ret value, so this test can be
> > removed.
> []
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/usb_boot.c b/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/usb_boot.c
> []
> > @@ -255,8 +255,6 @@ static int em_wait_ack(struct usb_device *usbdev, int send_zlp)
> >  
> >  	/*Wait for ACK*/
> >  	ret = gdm_wibro_recv(usbdev, &ack, sizeof(ack));
> > -	if (ret < 0)
> > -		goto out;
> >  out:
> >  	return ret;
> >  }
> 
> Perhaps all of the uses like:
> 
> 	goto <foo>;
> <foo>:
> 
> could be modified.  There are ~150 in the kernel.

Joe, these are a kind of style.  You're just directing a newbie into a
hornets nest.  Laurant, don't do listen to Joe unless you like getting
flamed.

regards,
dan carpenter


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-28  7:15 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 [this message]
2015-05-28  8:06     ` Joe Perches
2015-05-28  8:33       ` Julia Lawall
2015-05-28  8:41         ` Joe Perches
2015-05-27 20:46 ` Fabio Estevam
2015-05-28  7:20   ` Dan Carpenter

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