[PATCH 1/2] omap2+: pm: Use if...else instead of goto
Premi, Sanjeev
premi at ti.com
Fri Jun 24 09:01:47 EDT 2011
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shilimkar, Santosh
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 6:29 PM
> To: Premi, Sanjeev
> Cc: linux-omap at vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] omap2+: pm: Use if...else instead of goto
>
> On 6/24/2011 6:24 PM, Premi, Sanjeev wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Shilimkar, Santosh
> >> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 6:18 PM
> >> To: Premi, Sanjeev
> >> Cc: linux-omap at vger.kernel.org;
> linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] omap2+: pm: Use if...else instead of goto
> >>
> >> On 6/24/2011 4:05 PM, Sanjeev Premi wrote:
> >>> This patch replaces the use of goto with simple
> >>> if...else syntax. No change in functionality.
> >>>
> >>> This also means that the comment describing the
> >>> dependency between CONFIG_SMP and calculation
> >>> of loops_per_jiffy can be unified.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Sanjeev Premi<premi at ti.com>
> >>> ---
> >> Don't see need of this patch as well considering your second patch.
> >> So NAK.
> >>
> > [sp] May be it isn't needed - but it surely highlights some
> > bad code that does find way upstream.
> >
> If you think of using if else makes code better than use
> of goto, then I just ignore your comment. Because that means
> core scheduler code is also bad as per your remark which makes
> use of goto.
[sp] No. It is context based - and in this context goto isn't
any good... because code it evaluates to simple if..else
as we "goto" over just another instruction.
>
> Regards
> Santosh
>
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