From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Fabio M . De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: Remove unnecessary ret variable in rtw_drv_init()
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 12:05:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210816090500.GG1931@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210813201418.4018631-1-nathan@kernel.org>
To be honest, I prefered the original.
foo = alloc();
if (!foo) {
ret = -EWHATEVER;
goto free_last_thing;
}
I like this style of error handling because all the information is
there. You don't need to scroll down.
I don't really care about this specific patch at all. It's a small
thing. But we had someone come through who was sort of obsessed with
removing these sorts of variables. Just because you can remove a
variable doesn't necessarily make the code more readable.
If you're doing the work and maintaining the driver you get to choose
your own style to some extent. But I don't want to encourage people to
start sending these sort of patches more generally.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-16 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-13 20:14 [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: Remove unnecessary ret variable in rtw_drv_init() Nathan Chancellor
2021-08-13 21:55 ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-08-14 17:16 ` Phillip Potter
2021-08-16 9:05 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2021-08-16 10:15 ` Fabio M. De Francesco
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