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

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Date:   Mon, 28 Feb 2022 17:57:58 +0100
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
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, 28 Feb 2022 17:39:21 +0100,
Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> 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.

OK, I dropped S-o-b lines and applied the patches now.


thanks,

Takashi