linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: arm/aes-ce: assign err return conditionally

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Date:   Sat, 11 Feb 2017 10:15:43 +0000
From:   Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: arm/aes-ce: assign err return conditionally

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 05:39:46PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 02:36:19PM +0100, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > As the err value is not used unless there was an error it can be assigned
> > conditionally here. 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
> 
> This patch just adds noise to the commit history.  So I'm not going
> to apply it.

ok - I was not sure about how sensible this sort of changes are
either - will drop those code-to-object refactoring experiments
then again.

thx!
hofrat