linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: os

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Date:   Sun, 31 Oct 2021 21:31:20 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Saurav Girepunje <saurav.girepunje@...il.com>,
        Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@...il.com>,
        Larry.Finger@...inger.net, phil@...lpotter.co.uk,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, straube.linux@...il.com,
        martin@...ser.cx, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     saurav.girepunje@...mail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: os_dep: remove the goto statement

On Mon, 2021-11-01 at 09:58 +0530, Saurav Girepunje wrote:
> On 01/11/21 12:47 am, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Sun, 2021-10-31 at 21:43 +0300, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> > > On 10/31/21 21:10, Saurav Girepunje wrote:
> > > > Remove the goto statement from rtw_init_drv_sw(). In this function goto
> > > > can be replace by return statement. As on goto label exit, function
> > > > only return it is not performing any cleanup. Avoiding goto will
> > > > improve the function readability.
[]
> > > And just `return _SUCCESS;` here.
> > 
> > And maybe one day s/_SUCCESS/true/ and s/_FAIL/false/
> > with appropriate conversions to bool
> 
> Yes this is another improvement possible on this function.

Not just this function, globally in the driver.