On Tue, 2020-10-06 at 21:04 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Code should generally do "error handling" instead of "success handling".

Maybe something to add to coding-style
(in '6} Functions' maybe?)...

> That way the success path is always indented one tab and the error path
> is indented two tabs.  I like to say that the call and the error handling
> are part of the same thing, but with success handling, it's like
> do the call, do more stuff, go back to the error handling from the
> earlier call.
[]
> Anyway, TLDR, please write it like this:
> 
>       if (on == 0)
>               return power_down(sd);
> 
>       ret = power_up(sd);
>       if (ret)
>               return ret;
> 
>       return gc0310_init(sd);

Much nicer, thanks for taking the time to write it.



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