[PATCH 06/12] staging: dgnc: removes kzalloc error statements
Lidza Louina
lidza.louina at gmail.com
Tue Sep 3 17:03:06 UTC 2013
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
> The point I was trying to make earlier was that I don't like knee jerk
> error messages. Some people put an error message after every line
> without thinking about it. It's a very common source of bugs is to
> have a NULL dereference like:
>
> if (!dev) {
> pr_err("no device %s", dev->name);
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> It's a pet peeve of mine. It should just be:
>
> if (!dev)
> return -EINVAL;
>
>
> But in the future I will be more careful in how I say it. Sorry again.
Its okay, its my fault. I had a feeling that I was doing it wrong, but
did it anyway. >_<
I'll keep the return values but remove the error messages.
Your emails and feedback have been clear and helpful thus far,
so thank you.
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