linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] net-PPP: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks

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Message-Id: <20141218.122556.2148647081075440879.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:25:56 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net
Cc:	sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com, paulus@...ba.org,
	linux-ppp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, julia.lawall@...6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] net-PPP: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks

From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 18:23:08 +0100

>>> Where should "the error pointers" be stored instead?
>> 
>> A local variable, before you assign it into the datastructure.
> 
> I have looked at the affected software infrastructure once more.
> Now I find still that your data reorgansisation wish can not be resolved
> in a simple way.

I'm saying to leave the code alone.

If it goes:

	var = foo_that_returns_ptr_err()
	if (IS_ERR(var))
		return PTR_ERR(var);

	p->bar = var;

or whatever, simply keep it that way!

I'm not engaging in this conversation any further, you have already
consumed way too much of my limited time on this incredibly trivial
matter.
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