Re: [PATCH] staging: gdm72xx: remove unneeded test

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Thu May 28 2015 - 12:21:30 EST




On Wed, 27 May 2015, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 07:43 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 May 2015, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > Perhaps all of the uses like:
> > >
> > > goto <foo>;
> > > <foo>:
> > >
> > > could be modified. There are ~150 in the kernel.
> >
> > I wrote a semantic patch recently for that as well... Maybe I can take
> > care of it.
>
> Great. Thanks Julia.
>
> There may be some reorganization of code that is
> possible for many of these than coccinelle may
> not perform well though.

As what looks like an extreme example, wouldn't this function be better as
just return inet6_register_protosw(&rawv6_protosw); ?

int __init rawv6_init(void)
{
int ret;

ret = inet6_register_protosw(&rawv6_protosw);
if (ret)
goto out;
out:
return ret;
}

julia
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