Re: [PATCH] Removed useless retval variables in usb-serial.c

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 10:34 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:48:03PM -0300, Trevor Pace wrote:
> > Removed useless return value variables.
> They seem useful to me, especially as it causes the code to fall out of
> the function at the bottom, and not in the middle, which makes
> maintaining the code easier to do over time, right?

If paint for the bike shed is still required,
my preferences are:

If unwinding is required, gotos are useful
and the last return should be the error case.

If no unwinding is required, gotos tend to be
distracting and the last return should be the
no error case.

Trevor's new code does:

	if (port->serial->type->ioctl)
		return port->serial->type->ioctl(tty, file, cmd, arg);
	return -ENOIOCTLCMD;

where I would have preferred:

	if (!port->serial->type->ioctl)
		return -ENOIOCTLCMD;

	return port->serial->type->ioctl(tty, file, cmd, arg);