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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/7] iio: light: tsl2583: change functions to only have a single exit point
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 06:32:05AM -0400, Brian Masney wrote:
> Change the following functions to only have a single exit point:
> taos_i2c_read(), taos_als_calibrate(), taos_chip_on(),
> taos_gain_store(), taos_gain_available_show(), taos_luxtable_store()
> and taos_probe().
>

What's the point of this? This style of code just makes things more
complicated and leads to "forgot the error code" bugs. People think
that it future proofs the code in case we add locking but I have looked
into this and it has minimal if any impact at preventing locking bugs.

regards,
dan carpenter


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