[PATCH v2 1/5] gpiolib: cosmetic improvements for error handling in gpiochip_add()

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu Jun 10 15:40:46 EST 2010


From: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com>

Hopefully it makes the code look nicer and makes it easier to extend
this function.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
CC: devicetree-discuss at lists.ozlabs.org
CC: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c |   18 ++++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index 3ca3654..713ca0e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -1101,14 +1101,20 @@ int gpiochip_add(struct gpio_chip *chip)
 
 unlock:
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gpio_lock, flags);
-	if (status == 0)
-		status = gpiochip_export(chip);
+
+	if (status)
+		goto fail;
+
+	status = gpiochip_export(chip);
+	if (status)
+		goto fail;
+
+	return 0;
 fail:
 	/* failures here can mean systems won't boot... */
-	if (status)
-		pr_err("gpiochip_add: gpios %d..%d (%s) failed to register\n",
-			chip->base, chip->base + chip->ngpio - 1,
-			chip->label ? : "generic");
+	pr_err("gpiochip_add: gpios %d..%d (%s) failed to register\n",
+		chip->base, chip->base + chip->ngpio - 1,
+		chip->label ? : "generic");
 	return status;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpiochip_add);



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