Re: [PATCH 1/9] eeepc-laptop: clean up coding style

From: Darren Hart
Date: Fri Sep 19 2014 - 12:46:19 EST


On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 07:01:25AM +0200, Frans Klaver wrote:
> On 18 September 2014 00:06:52 CEST, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 23:47 +0200, Frans Klaver wrote:
> >> Correct indentation and brace usage to comply with
> >> Documentation/CodingStyle.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Frans Klaver <fransklaver@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c | 8 +++++---
> >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c
> >b/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c
> >> index 3095d38..653999e 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c
> >> @@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ static int eeepc_led_init(struct eeepc_laptop
> >*eeepc)
> >> eeepc->tpd_led.name = "eeepc::touchpad";
> >> eeepc->tpd_led.brightness_set = tpd_led_set;
> >> if (get_acpi(eeepc, CM_ASL_TPD) >= 0) /* if method is available */
> >> - eeepc->tpd_led.brightness_get = tpd_led_get;
> >> + eeepc->tpd_led.brightness_get = tpd_led_get;
> >> eeepc->tpd_led.max_brightness = 1;
> >>
> >> rv = led_classdev_register(&eeepc->platform_device->dev,
> >> @@ -692,8 +692,9 @@ static int eeepc_register_rfkill_notifier(struct
> >eeepc_laptop *eeepc,
> >> * changed during setup.
> >> */
> >> eeepc_rfkill_hotplug(eeepc, handle);
> >> - } else
> >> + } else {
> >> return -ENODEV;
> >> + }
> >>
> >> return 0;
> >> }
> >
> >This sort of code:
> >
> > if (foo) {
> > [ do_something ]
> > } else
> > return -ERRVAL;
> >
> >is generally better rewritten as:
> >
> > if (!foo)
> > return -ERRVAL;
> >
> > [ do_something ]
> >
> >This gives immediacy to the error handler and
> >as well reduces unnecessary indentation.
>
> I fully agree.
>
> Darren, do you still take this in one patch?

I'll take the cleanup patch as is. I'm happy to take a separate patch to improve
the code flow.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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