linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 04/13] exfat: add directory operations

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Message-ID: <0e17c0a7-9b40-12a4-3f3f-500b9abb66de@web.de>
Date:   Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:11:00 +0100
From:   Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To:     Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Daniel Wagner <dwagner@...e.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@...e.com>,
        Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@...sung.com>,
        Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>,
        linkinjeon@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/13] exfat: add directory operations

>> …
>>> +++ b/fs/exfat/dir.c
>> …
>>> +static int exfat_readdir(struct inode *inode, struct exfat_dir_entry
>> *dir_entry)
>>> +{
>> …
>>> +			if (!ep) {
>>> +				ret = -EIO;
>>> +				goto free_clu;
>>> +			}
>>
>> How do you think about to move a bit of common exception handling code
>> (at similar places)?
> Not sure it is good.

The software development opinions can vary also for this change pattern
according to different design goals.
Is such a transformation just another possibility to reduce duplicate
source code a bit?

Regards,
Markus