> I have never seen much evolution going on in this area. I can get an other impression from a specific document for example. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/log/Documentation/CodingStyle > What the patch tries to do is avoid the extra 'if (err)'. Yes. - I propose to look at related consequences together with the usage of a popular short jump label once more. > Setting coding style aside, the question is whether there is > a good metric for the patch. A software development challenge is to accept changes also around a topic like "error handling". My update suggestion for the source file "drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/if_spi.c" should only improve exception handling. (I came along other source files where more improvements will eventually be possible.) When will the run-time behaviour matter also for exceptional situations? > Did you look at the resulting assembly code for different target architectures? Not yet. - Which execution system variants would you recommend for further comparisons? Regards, Markus -- 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
