[Intel-gfx] drm/i915: Copy the staged connector config to the legacy atomic state
Dan Carpenter
dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Mon Mar 30 05:02:59 PDT 2015
This is a typical "one err bug" which is a kind of bug where there is
just one err: label which does all the error handling. One err bugs are
one of the most common class of bugs in the kernel. "Oh, we didn't
initialize that struct member" or "That pointer is NULL."
In networking they have resisted patches to add sanity checks to
free_netdev() so that people can't do one err style error handling. You
always have to know if the dev is allocated or not.
Having one error label makes sense if the label is "unlock:" but labels
like fail:, err:, out:, or bail are not very good label names.
The disadvantage of having multiple returns is that it means you can't
have a debug statement, but debug statements are mostly a waste of RAM
and we can use ftrace for that.
regards,
dan carpenter
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