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From: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] staging: r8712u: Remove useless return variables
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 14:52:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <537B4FF2.4010502@bfs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140520114113.GG15585@mwanda>



Am 20.05.2014 13:41, schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> Those concerns are valid but the code was like that in the original so
> we should merge this patch as is and hope some volunteer will fix things
> up in a follow on patch.
> 
> Fixing them in this patch would be a mistake anyway because of the one
> thing per patch rule.
> 

I see this as a bordercase, the patch from Peter is correct in the context of
removing useless return variables. I question the whole function in the hope
that the maintainer will decide that the function can go completely.

re,
 wh

      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-20 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-20 10:33 [PATCH 1/8] staging: r8712u: Remove useless return variables Peter Senna Tschudin
2014-05-20 11:14 ` walter harms
2014-05-20 11:41   ` Dan Carpenter
2014-05-20 12:52     ` walter harms [this message]

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