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Message-ID: <1432802477.2846.209.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 May 2015 01:41:17 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	Laurent Navet <laurent.navet@...il.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: gdm72xx: remove unneeded test

On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 10:33 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Thu, 28 May 2015, Joe Perches wrote:
> I think these are very equivalent style to
> > the repeated:
> >
> > 	ret = foo();
> > 	if (ret < 0)
> > 		return ret;
> > ...
> > 	ret = bar();
> > 	if (ret < 0)
> > 		return ret;
> >
> > 	return ret;
> >
> > and people seem to prefer changing those.
> 
> Maybe if there is a whole sequence of them, it it is reasonable to keep
> them.  But if there is just one, it seems complicated for nothing.

Agree with that.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/2/321

> In the
> big scheme of things, though, there are probably better things one could
> do than changing all of them.

Agree with that too.


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