linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Staging: speakup: varhandlers: cleanup of function spk_get_punc

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Date:	Sat, 12 Dec 2015 14:19:54 +0530
From:	Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.truth@...il.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, kirk@...sers.ca,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	speakup@...ux-speakup.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
	Christopher Brannon <chris@...-brannons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: speakup: varhandlers: cleanup of function spk_get_punc_var

On 12 December 2015 at 14:10, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 10:47:18AM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 06:35:11PM +0530, Saurabh Sengar wrote:
>> > This patch does the following:
>> > * changed the complicated if statements to simple case statements
>> > * in case of E_DEFAULT, no need to return error as ERESTART,
>> > because this is the user asked for. Hence function should return success.
>> > * ret variable is 0 always, hence removed it.
>> > * removed one ternary operator, as it was always returning the status value only,
>> > and hence removed the status variable too
>>
>> That becomes 4 different changes. Please break them into separate
>> patches.
>
> It's cleaning up one function so you could argue that it's just one
> thing.  Sometimes it's actually harder to review when a patch is broken
> into ultra tiny junks.
yes Dan, this is my point too.
I was planning to cleanup many function in speakup.
If I will be breakup in to such a small chunk, it will problem for both of us.
The best I can do is to hide the details in description and just say
clanup there.
I am open to suggestions.


Regards,
Saurabh
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