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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: net-thunder: One check less in nicvf_register_interrupts()
 after error detection
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 12:42:00 -0800
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Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@cavium.com>,
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	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
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On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 21:38 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Some prefer that source code be "templatized" regardless
> > of the number of exit points that any particular use of a
> > specific function type.
[]
> > Some of your patches are converting these templatized
> > functions to a different form for no added value.
> 
> Would you like to distinguish a bit more between my evolving
> collection of update suggestions and the concrete proposal
> for the function "nicvf_register_interrupts"?

No.

> > These patches make the local source code inconsistent
> > and generally goes against the authors preferred style.
> 
> Which programming approach will be the leading one here finally?

Whatever the developer wants.

There is no _best_ or _only_ style for this.