From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org>
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand
	id S933661AbbLOSzS (ORCPT <rfc822;w@1wt.eu>);
	Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:55:18 -0500
Received: from smtprelay0216.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.216]:50186 "EHLO
	smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL)
	by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932190AbbLOSzQ (ORCPT
	<rfc822;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>);
	Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:55:16 -0500
X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D
X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:960:973:988:989:1042:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1538:1593:1594:1711:1714:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2559:2562:2693:2828:2895:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3351:3622:3865:3866:3867:3871:3872:3874:4321:5007:6261:6691:8526:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11914:12517:12519:12740:13069:13161:13229:13311:13357:14659:21080:30012:30034:30054:30064:30070:30091,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:2,LUA_SUMMARY:none
X-HE-Tag: mint19_67bc59102ac08
X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2081
Message-ID: <1450205711.4142.23.camel@perches.com>
Subject: Re: staging: lustre: Delete unnecessary goto statements in six
 functions
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
        Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>, lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org,
        devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:55:11 -0800
In-Reply-To: <567060C3.5070608@users.sourceforge.net>
References: <566ABCD9.1060404@users.sourceforge.net>
	 <566D7733.1030102@users.sourceforge.net>
	 <566D7830.9060000@users.sourceforge.net>
	 <1450189676.3551.1.camel@perches.com> <20151215144133.GC5284@mwanda>
	 <1450191751.3551.14.camel@perches.com> <20151215174844.GE5284@mwanda>
	 <1450203011.4142.4.camel@perches.com>
	 <56705B71.6090307@users.sourceforge.net>
	 <1450204451.4142.19.camel@perches.com>
	 <567060C3.5070608@users.sourceforge.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
X-Mailer: Evolution 3.18.2-0ubuntu2 
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
List-ID: <linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org>
X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 19:49 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > I think there should _not_ be a hardened rule.
> I guess that it can become hard to achieve consensus on a precise rule.

Consensus isn't unanimity.

> I imagine that your feedback
> can cause further software development troubles if the acceptance for
> this update suggestion will really depend on the number of blank lines
> before a jump label.

<shrug>

The author of any particular bit of code can do
whatever they want.

Localized consistency is probably more valuable than
global consistency.