linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] staging: lustre: Rename a jump label for ptlrpc_req

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Date:	Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:31:22 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] staging: lustre: Rename a jump label for
 ptlrpc_req_finished() calls

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:08:03AM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Markus, please stop sending these things to rename out labels unless
> > there is a bug.  CodingStyle allows out labels.
> 
> How does this feedback fit to information like the following?
> 
> "…
> Chapter 7: …
> …
> Choose label names which say what the goto does or why the goto exists.

A lot of people think "out" says what the goto does and why it exists.
I personally don't agree with them but if you look at when I complain
about it, it's almost always when it causes a bug.

> … Avoid using GW-BASIC names …

Those when people just use numbers for their label names instead of
words like out1, out2, out4, out5.  It's a different thing.

regards,
dan carpenter

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