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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 11:05:46 -0800
From: Justin Chen <justin.chen@...adcom.com>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	Wojciech Drewek <wojciech.drewek@...el.com>, Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com, 
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, 
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, cocci@...ia.fr, 
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: bcmasp: Use common error handling code in bcmasp_probe()

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 1:11 AM Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de> wrote:
>
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:38:56 +0100
>
> Add a jump target so that a bit of exception handling can be better reused
> in this function implementation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> ---
>
> v2:
> Special expectations were expressed for the previous patch size.
>
> * Jakub Kicinski
>   https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231106145806.669875f4@kernel.org/
>
> * Justin Chen
>   https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CALSSxFYRgPwEq+QhCOYPqrtae8RvL=jTOcz4mk3vbe+Fc0QwbQ@mail.gmail.com/
>
> * Florian Fainelli
>   https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/4053e838-e5cf-4450-8067-21bdec989d1b@broadcom.com/
>
>
> Thus another change variant can eventually be integrated.
>
>
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp.c
> index 29b04a274d07..7d6c15732d9f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/asp2/bcmasp.c
> @@ -1304,9 +1304,8 @@ static int bcmasp_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>                 intf = bcmasp_interface_create(priv, intf_node, i);
>                 if (!intf) {
>                         dev_err(dev, "Cannot create eth interface %d\n", i);
> -                       bcmasp_remove_intfs(priv);
>                         of_node_put(intf_node);
> -                       goto of_put_exit;
> +                       goto remove_intfs;
>                 }
>                 list_add_tail(&intf->list, &priv->intfs);
>                 i++;
> @@ -1331,6 +1330,7 @@ static int bcmasp_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>                         netdev_err(intf->ndev,
>                                    "failed to register net_device: %d\n", ret);
>                         priv->destroy_wol(priv);
> +remove_intfs:
>                         bcmasp_remove_intfs(priv);
>                         goto of_put_exit;
>                 }
> --
> 2.42.1
>
nak. Doesn't save any lines of code. Doesn't make things clearer or
easier to follow. This doesn't seem like an improvement to me.

Justin

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