Re: [PATCH 2/13 v2] [SCSI] qla2xxx: make return of 0 explicit

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On Mon, 19 May 2014, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 04:07:52PM +0000, Saurav Kashyap wrote:
> > Hi Julia,
> >
> > Status is already set to 0 at the beginning of the function, I think
> > we should just "return status" here to be consistent with the rest of
> > the function.
>
> "return 0;" is more clear than "return status;".
>
> Consistency is great so long as it makes the code easier to read.  Don't
> lose track of the real goal.

If status were an informative word, there might be a reason for it.  But
integer typed functions almost always return their status, so there is no
real information.

julia
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