On Mon, 28 Dec 2015, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > >> Move the jump label directly before the desired log statement > >> so that the variable "ret" will not be checked once more > >> after it was determined that a function call failed. > > > > Why not avoid both unnecessary ifs > > I would find such a fine-tuning also nice in principle at more source code places. > > > > and the enormous ugliness of a label inside an if by making two returns: > > a return 0 for success and a dev_dbg and return ret for failure? > > How should your suggestion finally work when the desired execution success > can be determined for such functions only after several other calls succeeded? Not idea what this means, but immediate return 0 followed by various code for reacting to an error is very common, so it looks like it should be possible here. julia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html