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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Saurav Kashyap <saurav.kashyap@qlogic.com>,
	Dept-Eng QLA2xxx Upstream <qla2xxx-upstream@qlogic.com>,
	"kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org"
	<kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/13 v2] [SCSI] qla2xxx: make return of 0 explicit
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 07:36:48 +0800 (SGT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1405200735210.3003@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140519201202.GA15585@mwanda>



On Mon, 19 May 2014, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 04:07:52PM +0000, Saurav Kashyap wrote:
> > Hi Julia,
> >
> > Status is already set to 0 at the beginning of the function, I think
> > we should just "return status" here to be consistent with the rest of
> > the function.
>
> "return 0;" is more clear than "return status;".
>
> Consistency is great so long as it makes the code easier to read.  Don't
> lose track of the real goal.

If status were an informative word, there might be a reason for it.  But
integer typed functions almost always return their status, so there is no
real information.

julia

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-19 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-19  4:47 [PATCH 2/13 v2] [SCSI] qla2xxx: make return of 0 explicit Julia Lawall
2014-05-19 16:07 ` Saurav Kashyap
2014-05-19 20:12   ` Dan Carpenter
2014-05-19 23:36     ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2014-05-19 23:46       ` Dan Carpenter
2014-05-20 15:07         ` Saurav Kashyap

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