[PATCH 3/6] staging: rtl8188eu: remove goto label

Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 12:03:19 UTC 2015


On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 02:47:55PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 04:55:12PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 02:03:48PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 04:58:09PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > > By checking for the success of kzalloc we were able to remove the goto
> > > > label thus making the code more readable.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > No...  You've just changed error handling to success handling and added
> > > some new indent levels and made a tangled spaghetti exit path even more
> > > tangled.  Spoderman wants to know, "Why u do dis?"
> > I had to go for google to lookup Spoderman or Spiderman. :)
> > At the end of the series, isn't the code better looking and simpler
> > than the original code?
> 
> Yes, but that's not a very high bar to clear.
> 
> What I'm trying to explain is the beauty of writing one statement after
> the other without indenting.
understood.
I was planning another series for that file so i will include one for
this also. But before that I am going to send in the patch for sm7xxfb
to move out of staging. Please check that.

regards
sudip


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