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From: Brian Masney <masneyb@onstation.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: jic23@kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, lars@metafoo.de,
	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pmeerw@pmeerw.net, knaack.h@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] iio: light: tsl2583: change functions to only have a single exit point
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 08:38:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161019123816.GA6741@basecamp.onstation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161019110859.GG4469@mwanda>

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 02:08:59PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 06:32:05AM -0400, Brian Masney wrote:
> > Change the following functions to only have a single exit point:
> > taos_i2c_read(), taos_als_calibrate(), taos_chip_on(),
> > taos_gain_store(), taos_gain_available_show(), taos_luxtable_store()
> > and taos_probe().
> > 
> 
> What's the point of this?  This style of code just makes things more
> complicated and leads to "forgot the error code" bugs.  People think
> that it future proofs the code in case we add locking but I have looked
> into this and it has minimal if any impact at preventing locking bugs.

The reason that I did this was due to the locking that I added later in
the patch series. Each function would only have a single call to
mutex_unlock(). I should have mentioned that in my message.

Brian

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-19 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-19 10:32 [PATCH 1/7] iio: light: tsl2583: return proper error code Brian Masney
2016-10-19 10:32 ` [PATCH 2/7] iio: light: tsl2583: change functions to only have a single exit point Brian Masney
2016-10-19 11:08   ` Dan Carpenter
2016-10-19 12:38     ` Brian Masney [this message]
2016-10-19 12:51       ` Dan Carpenter
2016-10-19 10:32 ` [PATCH 3/7] iio: light: tsl2583: use DEVICE_ATTR_{RO, RW, WO} macros Brian Masney
2016-10-19 10:47   ` Peter Meerwald-Stadler
2016-10-19 13:04     ` Brian Masney
2016-10-19 11:26   ` Dan Carpenter
2016-10-19 13:08     ` Brian Masney
2016-10-19 13:11       ` Dan Carpenter
2016-10-22 17:25         ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-10-19 16:30   ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-10-19 10:32 ` [PATCH 4/7] iio: light: tsl2583: return proper error code in sysfs store functions Brian Masney
2016-10-19 10:32 ` [PATCH 5/7] iio: light: tsl2583: check return values from taos_chip_{on,off} Brian Masney
2016-10-19 11:22   ` [PATCH 5/7] iio: light: tsl2583: check return values from taos_chip_{on, off} Dan Carpenter
2016-10-19 12:48     ` Brian Masney
2016-10-19 12:54       ` Dan Carpenter
2016-10-19 12:57         ` Dan Carpenter
2016-10-19 10:32 ` [PATCH 6/7] iio: light: tsl2583: add locking to sysfs *_store() functions Brian Masney
2016-10-19 11:33   ` Dan Carpenter
2016-10-19 11:37     ` Dan Carpenter
2016-10-22 17:29       ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-10-24  9:35         ` Dan Carpenter
2016-10-19 10:32 ` [PATCH 7/7] iio: light: tsl2583: fix concurrency issue in taos_get_lux() Brian Masney
2016-10-22 17:32   ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-10-22 17:18 ` [PATCH 1/7] iio: light: tsl2583: return proper error code Jonathan Cameron

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