The point of unwind code is to undo what was done earlier. If a function allocates a list of things, using standard unwind style makes it simpler, safer and more readable. This isn't the case here. Instead of making the code more readable, we're making it more convoluted. It's just that two out of three error messages happened to be the same and Markus wants to save a bit of memory by using the same string. The memory savings is not so big that it's worth making the code less readable. regards, dan carpenter -- 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