linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ubifs: compress lines for immediate return

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Date:   Mon, 5 Sep 2016 08:28:05 +0200
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:     Heiko Schocher <hs@...x.de>, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ubifs: compress lines for immediate return

Heiko,

On 05.09.2016 06:59, Heiko Schocher wrote:
> fix the following code:
> 
> -ret = expression;
> -if (ret)
> -        return ret;
> -return 0;
> +return expression;

"Fix"? ;-)
What was broken?

I agree that we can write the expression in a different way, but is it really worth it?
Is this part of a tree-wide cleanup?

Thanks,
//richard