netdev - Re: [RFC] cleanup: make scoped_guard() to be return-friendly

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Message-ID: <3f4228f2-3ad5-4491-8236-6a7fbc5274ff@web.de>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:51:43 +0200
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>,
 kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 Amadeusz Sławiński
 <amadeuszx.slawinski@...ux.intel.com>,
 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>,
 Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] cleanup: make scoped_guard() to be return-friendly

>> * Would you ever like to avoid reserved identifiers in such source code?
>>   https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/DCL37-C.+Do+not+declare+or+define+a+reserved+identifier
>
> we already don't care about this guideline (see __guard_ptr())

Please take another look at name conventions.
How do you think about to avoid that this software depends on undefined behaviour?

Regards,
Markus