[PATCH 1/3] tfi: The tfi_alloc doesn't allocate anything, rename the function

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Holger Hans Peter Freyther hfreyther at sysmocom.de
Sun Aug 25 11:55:08 UTC 2013


On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 01:01:34PM +0200, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:

Hi,


> Call things by what they do and this function doesn't allocate
> anything but it is searching for the first unallocated tbf index.

as part of cleaning up and adding structure (and on the way to
eliminate the various hidden errors) I came across tfi_alloc. There
are three places that mostly do (the topic of copy and paste in the
pcu code is another topic):

	tfi = tfi_alloc()
	if (tfi < 0)
		return;
	tbf = tbf_alloc(tfi,...);
	if (!tbf)
		return;


Now just by the name... we would leak the result of tfi_alloc in the
above code. But then again tfi_alloc doesn't allocate anything it is
just trying to find an unallocated index.

Which brings me to:
Name things by what they do (and update the name when the implementation
does change). In the above case if the method is called tfi_find_free
I will know that there is no side-effect and that I will not need to
call a tfi_free.

cheers
	holger

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