linux-kernel - Re: staging: lustre: Delete unnecessary goto statements in six functions

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Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:55:11 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: staging: lustre: Delete unnecessary goto statements in six
 functions

On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 19:49 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > I think there should _not_ be a hardened rule.
> I guess that it can become hard to achieve consensus on a precise rule.

Consensus isn't unanimity.

> I imagine that your feedback
> can cause further software development troubles if the acceptance for
> this update suggestion will really depend on the number of blank lines
> before a jump label.

<shrug>

The author of any particular bit of code can do
whatever they want.

Localized consistency is probably more valuable than
global consistency.

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