On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Krzysztof Mazur wrote:
> > Why bother with a separate jump label? Just set maxchild to 0 whenever
> > a failure occurs.
> >
>
> Initially I had just straightforward "dev->maxchild = 0;" after fail,
> but I changed that to simplify the second patch and be able to
> use goto fail:
>
> ret = usb_hub_create_port_device(hub, i + 1);
> if (ret < 0) {
> dev_err(hub->intfdev,
> "couldn't create port%d device.\n", i + 1);
> hdev->maxchild = i;
> goto fail;
> }
>
> and avoid "return ret" here or something like
>
> if (hdev->maxchild == hub->descriptor->bNbrPorts)
> hdev->maxchild = 0;
>
> in the fail path.
The second patch can either clean up the port devices by hand, or else
jump to a new label after the line that sets maxchild to 0.
Alan Stern
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