Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:56:23 -0800 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [FSAIO][PATCH 7/8] Filesystem AIO read |
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:22:07 +0100 (MET) Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > On Dec 28 2006 11:57, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > >> + > >> + if ((error = __lock_page(page, current->io_wait))) { > >> + goto readpage_error; > >> + } > > > >This should be > > > > error = __lock_page(page, current->io_wait); > > if (error) > > goto readpage_error; > > That's effectively the same. Essentially a style thing, and I see if((err = > xyz)) not being uncommon in the kernel tree.
The combined if/assignment has been known to contain coding errors that are legal C, just not what was intended.
Since the latter replacement shouldn't cause any code efficiency problems and it's more readable, it's becoming preferred.
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