linux-kernel - Re: [KJ][PATCH] Correct misc_register return code handling in several drivers

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Date:	Wed, 1 Nov 2006 16:11:55 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
Cc:	"Neil Horman" <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	"Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@...nel.crashing.org>, akpm@...l.org,
	kernel-janitors@...ts.osdl.org, kjhall@...ibm.com,
	maxk@...lcomm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KJ][PATCH] Correct misc_register return code handling in
 several drivers

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 01:05:49 +0100 Jesper Juhl wrote:

> On 01/11/06, Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com> wrote:
> > Hey all-
> >         Since Andrew hasn't incorporated this patch yet, and I had the time, I
> > redid the patch taking Benjamin's INIT_LIST_HEAD and Joes mmtimer cleanup into
> > account.  New patch attached, replacing the old one, everything except the
> > aforementioned cleanups is identical.
> >
> > Thanks & Regards
> > Neil
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> >
> > +out4:
> > +       for_each_online_node(node) {
> > +               kfree(timers[node]);
> > +       }
> > +out3:
> > +       misc_deregister(&mmtimer_miscdev);
> > +out2:
> > +       free_irq(SGI_MMTIMER_VECTOR, NULL);
> > +out1:
> > +       return -1;
> 
> Very nitpicky little thing, but shouldn't the labels start at column
> 1, not column 0 ?
> I thought that was standard practice (apparently labels at column 0
> can confuse 'patch').
> 
> Hmm, I guess that should be defined once and for all in
> Documentation/CodingStyle

I have some other CodingStyle changes to submit, but feel free
to write this one up.

However, I didn't know that we had a known style for this, other
than "not indented so far that it's hidden".

If a label in column 0 [0-based :] confuses patch, then that's
a reason, I suppose.  I wasn't aware of that one...
In a case like that, we usually say "fix the tool then."

---
~Randy
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