Added CC: [email protected] On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:04 AM, Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Senna Tschudin <[email protected]> writes: > >> This patch remove variables that are initialized with a constant, >> are never updated, and are only used as parameter of return. >> Return the constant instead of using a variable. > > This ret variable pattern is pretty standard in Linux, as it makes it > easier to add new code that may trigger new errors > (using the usual "goto forest" error handling pattern) The average age in days of the return statements my patch changes is 1384, which is more than 3 years, so, in average, the plan of adding new code was lost... See: http://pastebin.com/2k13sHU2
> > I don't see any benefit in whole-sale removing it. The compiler > doesn't care about it and will generate the same code in any > case. My goal is to make the code cleaner and easier to understand. Should I split this into a lot of patches? > > -Andi > > -- > [email protected] -- Speaking for myself only -- Peter _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
