linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/15] staging: exfat: Clean up return codes

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Date:   Fri, 25 Oct 2019 13:14:15 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/15] staging: exfat: Clean up return codes -
 FFS_PERMISSIONERR

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 12:27:47PM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 09:23:33 -0700, Joe Perches said:
> > On Thu, 2019-10-24 at 11:53 -0400, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> 
> > >  	if (err) {
> > > -		if (err == FFS_PERMISSIONERR)
> > > +		if (err == -EPERM)
> > >  			err = -EPERM;
> > >  		else if (err == FFS_INVALIDPATH)
> > >  			err = -EINVAL;
> >
> > These test and assign to same value blocks look kinda silly.
> 
> One patch, one thing.  Those are getting cleaned up in a subsequent patch.:)

I was just giving an impromptu lecture on this last week....  The one
thing per patch means we cleanup the fallout that results from the
change.  So if you rename a function then you have re-indent the
parameters etc.  If you remove a cast from (type)(foo + bar) then
remove all the extra parentheses and so on.

(I don't have strong feelings about this patch, but I have just been
trying to explain the one thing rule recently).

regards,
dan carpenter