Re: [PATCH] sched/net/act: Remove temporary state variables

Jiri Pirko
2022-07-29T06:30:46Z

Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 05:15:56AM CEST, kuba@kernel.org wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 17:41:46 +0800 Li zeming wrote:
>> The temporary variable ret could be removed and the corresponding state
>> can be directly returned.
>
>How many case like this are there in the kernel?
>What tool are you using to find this?
>We should focus on creating CI tools which can help catch instances of
>this pattern in new code before it gets added, rather than cleaning up
>old code. It just makes backports harder for hardly any gain.

What backports do you have in mind exactly?