linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] media: staging: atomisp: Removed else branch in function

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Date:   Tue, 06 Oct 2020 11:13:34 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Leonid Kushnir <leonf008@...il.com>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com,
        mchehab@...nel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] media: staging: atomisp: Removed else branch in
 function

On Tue, 2020-10-06 at 21:04 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Code should generally do "error handling" instead of "success handling".

Maybe something to add to coding-style
(in '6} Functions' maybe?)...

> That way the success path is always indented one tab and the error path
> is indented two tabs.  I like to say that the call and the error handling
> are part of the same thing, but with success handling, it's like
> do the call, do more stuff, go back to the error handling from the
> earlier call.
[]
> Anyway, TLDR, please write it like this:
> 
> 	if (on == 0)
>  		return power_down(sd);
> 
> 	ret = power_up(sd);
> 	if (ret)
> 		return ret;
> 
> 	return gc0310_init(sd);

Much nicer, thanks for taking the time to write it.