[PATCH 2/3] ARM: cache-uniphier: refactor jump label to follow coding style guideline

Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro at socionext.com
Fri Nov 4 05:50:56 PDT 2016


Hi Russell,

2016-11-04 21:23 GMT+09:00 Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at armlinux.org.uk>:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 08:43:35PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> Documentation/CodingStyle recommends to use label names which say
>> what the goto does or why the goto exists.
>>
>> Just in case, split it up into three labels because the CodingStyle
>> says "one err bugs" is a common type of bug (although, I do not
>> believe the current code includes such a bug).
>
> However, this has the effect of making the code unnecessarily more
> complicated, which is a bad thing.  Avoiding unnecessary code
> complexity wins over style rules.


I thought this patch is stupid, but makes the code more straight-forward;
the failure path only calls really needed iounmap/kfree()
without exploiting that NULL input makes them no-op.



-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada



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