linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] ALSA: core: Remove redundant variable and return the last statement

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Message-ID: <1760d9be590e18b5cccceef6e049651c69556c37.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:39:21 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     Meng Tang <tangmeng@...ontech.com>, perex@...ex.cz, tiwai@...e.com,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] ALSA: core: Remove redundant variable and return
 the last statement

On Mon, 2022-02-28 at 17:02 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 06:20:45 +0100, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2022-02-28 at 13:02 +0800, Meng Tang wrote:
> > > Return the result from file->f_op->open() directly instead of
> > > taking this in another redundant variable. Make the typical
> > > return the last statement, return early and reduce the indentation
> > > too.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Meng Tang <tangmeng@...ontech.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
> > 
> > Hi Meng Tang.
> > 
> > For the next time: it's not necessary (or even good) to add a sign-off
> > for another person unless they specifically authorize one.
> > 
> > You wrote and are submitting these changes, I merely gave you simple
> > suggestions as to how you could improve them.
> 
> Joe, would you like to drop your S-o-b lines from those two patches?
> Or shall I keep them?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Takashi

Hi Takashi.

Nominally, the sign-off-by chain shows who pushed these changes upstream
and I did not and I am not an upstream aggregator.

But whatever you choose is OK.
It's not really a concern to me.
I do think these changes are ok.

cheers, Joe