Re: [PATCH 17/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: refactor fill_periodic_buffer function

From: Alan Stern
Date: Tue Jan 05 2016 - 10:15:13 EST


On Mon, 4 Jan 2016, Geyslan G. Bem wrote:

> 2016-01-04 18:01 GMT-03:00 Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Mon, 4 Jan 2016, Geyslan G. Bem wrote:
> >
> >> This patch fixes a coding style issue reported by checkpatch related to
> >> many leading tabs, removing a 'do while' loop and making use of goto tag instead.
> >
> > This is highly questionable. It's a big amount of code churn, nearly
> > impossible to verify visually, just to remove one level of indentation.
> > It also introduces an unnecessary backwards "goto", which seems like a
> > bad idea.
> After hear you I agree. I saw that others drivers uses similar
> structure (fotg210-hcd.c and ohci-dbg.c), but they have less code. It
> would be the case in this file of moving code to a new function? If
> not, please disregard this patch.

Moving code into a new sub-function would be okay.

BTW, you don't need to post these patches to both linux-usb and LKML.
linux-usb alone is good enough. Nothing about the patches would be
especially interesting to a general Linux kernel programmer, so there's
no point in bringing them to everybody's attention.

Alan Stern

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