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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] ALSA: pcsp: Use common error handling code in snd_card_pcsp_probe()
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 17:07:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hwp5v7i9h.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b434f976-33a1-7ced-55b5-b55487f2fb14@users.sourceforge.net>

On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 17:03:00 +0200,
SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> 
> >> * I find it a bit safer when the error predicate is “return value != 0”.
> > 
> > Can't agree.
> 
> How do you think about to reduce the probability that positive return values
> will accidentally be interpreted as a successful function execution.

It's not zero.

> > And I have no interest to continue bike-shedding, sorry.
> 
> I do not like that you prefer to put this technical detail into such
> a communication category.
> 
> 
> > You can't convince me regarding this.
> 
> Would you still like to integrate the proposed refactoring with the use
> of previous failure predicates then?

That's fine.

But, please don't forget what others already mentioned.
For example, Joe Perches suggested to put a blank line before the
label for your patches.  But you completely ignored it and did the
same again.


thanks,

Takashi

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-22 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-22 12:10 [PATCH] ALSA: pcsp: Use common error handling code in snd_card_pcsp_probe() SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-22 12:16 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-08-22 12:28   ` Takashi Iwai
2017-08-22 12:47     ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-22 12:55       ` [alsa-devel] " Takashi Iwai
2017-08-22 13:15         ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-22 14:07           ` Takashi Iwai
2017-08-22 14:36             ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-22 14:49               ` Takashi Iwai
2017-08-22 15:03                 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-22 15:07                   ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2017-08-22 15:47                     ` [PATCH v3] " SF Markus Elfring
2017-08-22 15:59                       ` Takashi Iwai
2017-08-22 14:00     ` [PATCH v2] " SF Markus Elfring

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