Re: [PATCH] nfs: removed goto statement

From: Javier Abrego Lorente
Date: Fri May 20 2022 - 18:44:50 EST


Thanks for the link.
I think that goto is really useful and makes a lot of sense when there
are different parts in the function where you want to go to the exit
block.

I think this function is not one of those cases since there's only one
exit point and the goto can be easily removed, in my case 3rd try :)
Maybe at some point, this function had different parts in the code
where it went to the "out" block. But not anymore.

However, I don´t have a strong opinion on this patch. If it's accepted
that's great but mostly I wanted to learn the process of how to
contribute to the kernel and I did it!

Thanks,
Javier

On Fri, 20 May 2022 at 14:41, Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 20 May 2022, at 8:00, Javier Abrego Lorente wrote:
>
> > final version, I promise.
>
> Javier, please read "7) Centralized exiting of functions" in
> Documentation/process/coding-style.rst. The maintainers are unlikely to
> take this patch because it doesn't (my opinion) improve the readability, and
> removing a goto isn't a valid reason on its own. The use of goto is an
> acceptable practice in the linux kernel for some patterns.
>
> Ben
>