linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpbe.c: Removes useless kfree()

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Message-ID: <20120912172554.GH19396@mwanda>
Date:	Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:25:54 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@...il.com>
Cc:	Marcos Souza <marcos.souza.org@...il.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpbe.c: Removes
 useless kfree()

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 05:50:54PM +0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> Marcos,
> 
> > Now that you removed this kfree, you could remove this label too. Very
> > nice your cleanup :)
> Thanks!
> 
> >
> >>  vpbe_fail_sd_register:
> >>         kfree(vpbe_dev->encoders);
> >>  vpbe_fail_v4l2_device:
> 
> The problem removing the label is that it will require some more work
> naming the labels. See:
> if (!vpbe_dev->amp) {
> ...
> 	goto vpbe_fail_amp_register;
> 
> If I just remove the label vpbe_fail_amp_register, the label names
> will not make sense any more as the next label is
> vpbe_fail_sd_register. So I will need to change the name to something
> different or rename all labels to out1, out2, out3 or err1, err2,
> err3, or ....
> 
> Any suggestions?

Labal names should not be numbers because this is not GW-BASIC.  The
label should reflect what happens on the next line.  Labeling the
place after the goto location where you started from is always
nonsense.

regards,
dan carpenter

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