linux-kernel - Re: [v2 2/3] net: qrtr: Add MHI transport layer

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Message-ID: <6affe7d6-4aa1-cd72-74bf-69d8f6c3c98a@web.de>
Date:   Mon, 27 Apr 2020 08:50:43 +0200
From:   Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To:     Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>,
        Chris Lew <clew@...eaurora.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Hemant Kumar <hemantk@...eaurora.org>,
        Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@...eaurora.org>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        Siddartha Mohanadoss <smohanad@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [v2 2/3] net: qrtr: Add MHI transport layer

>> I propose again to add a jump target so that a bit of exception handling code
>> can be better reused at the end of this function implementation.
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst?id=b2768df24ec400dd4f7fa79542f797e904812053#n450
>>
>
> Matter of taste! goto's are really useful if there are multiple exit paths
> available. But in this case there is only one and I don't think we may add
> anymore in future. So I'll keep it as it is.

Do you hope that an other optimiser software will avoid duplicate code
like kfree_skb(skb) calls from if branches?

Regards,
Markus