Re: virtio_blk: Rename a jump label in virtblk_get_id()

[SF Markus Elfring]

>> Adjust a jump label according to the current Linux coding style convention.
> 
> I think you mean "goto label".  "Jump label" has a different meaning,
> see <linux/jump_label.h>.

Does a "goto" statement jump to the code position finally
which is specified by the label?


>> @@ -247,10 +247,10 @@ static int virtblk_get_id(struct gendisk *disk, char *id_str)
>>
>>         err = blk_rq_map_kern(q, req, id_str, VIRTIO_BLK_ID_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL);
>>         if (err)
>> -               goto out;
>> +               goto put_request;
>>
>>         err = blk_execute_rq(vblk->disk->queue, vblk->disk, req, false);
>> -out:
>> + put_request:
> 
> I checked Documentation/CodingStyle and see no reason to rename the label.

Can the suggested longer identifier explain better the "what" and "why"
for this software situation?


> It's also not clear why you added a space.  The CodingStyle example
> does not use a space before the label.

Do you find information from a commit like "docs: Remove space-before-label guidance
from CodingStyle" (from 2016-09-21) interesting?   ;-)
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/Documentation/CodingStyle?id=79c70c304b0b443429b2a0019518532c5162817a

Regards,
Markus