linux-kernel - Re: hwmon/amc6821: Use common error handling code in amc6821_init

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Message-ID: <482baa1b-ea2d-76db-3aee-719b6645156c@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Wed, 25 Oct 2017 08:03:13 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Günter Röck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hwmon/amc6821: Use common error handling code in
 amc6821_init_client()

> Nack; I am not a friend of that much verboseness to start with,
> and I don't think the patch improves readability.

* Do you care to avoid code duplication for two error messages in this use case?

* How do you think about to return a single error code directly
  without using an intermediate variable?

Regards,
Markus