>> Now I find still that your data reorgansisation wish can not be resolved >> in a simple way. > > I'm saying to leave the code alone.
It seems that there might be a misunderstanding between us. > If it goes: > > var = foo_that_returns_ptr_err() > if (IS_ERR(var)) > return PTR_ERR(var); > > p->bar = var; > > or whatever, simply keep it that way! A simple return was not used by the mppe_alloc() function so far because a bit of memory clean-up will also be useful after error detection, won't it? > I'm not engaging in this conversation any further, you have already > consumed way too much of my limited time on this incredibly trivial matter. It can occasionally happen that a safe clarification of specific implementation details will need more efforts than you would like to invest at the moment. Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
