Re: [PATCH] Replaces two GOTO statements with one IF_ELSE statementin /fs/open.c

[Joel Schopp]

Christoph Lameter wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
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> > If you don't like goto, don't read kernel code!
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> But his patch also cleans up a code quit a bit.

As a wider question, what is the practice for accepting patches without 
functional changes that simply clean up code and make it look better?

BTW, I also agree that the gotos in this case keep the normal code flow 
cleaner, while making the exceptions isolated well.

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