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From: willy@wil.cx (Matthew Wilcox)
Subject: [PATCH] NVMe: Fix error handling of class_create("nvme")
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:46:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150310194629.GQ2780@wil.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426015102.18746.10.camel@jpfreyen-mobl5.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015@12:18:22PM -0700, J Freyensee wrote:
> Looking at IS_ERR(), it uses IS_ERR_VALUE() which uses unlikely(), which
> from what I understand is a compiler hint that means "this error is
> unlikely to happen".
> 
> Well, is this error unlikely to happen?  Looks like the error could be

Yes.  All errors are, by definition, unlikely to happen.

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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@wil.cx>
To: J Freyensee <james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
	Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>,
	ldv-project@linuxtesting.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NVMe: Fix error handling of class_create("nvme")
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:46:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150310194629.GQ2780@wil.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426015102.18746.10.camel@jpfreyen-mobl5.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:18:22PM -0700, J Freyensee wrote:
> Looking at IS_ERR(), it uses IS_ERR_VALUE() which uses unlikely(), which
> from what I understand is a compiler hint that means "this error is
> unlikely to happen".
> 
> Well, is this error unlikely to happen?  Looks like the error could be

Yes.  All errors are, by definition, unlikely to happen.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-10 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-06 22:43 [PATCH] NVMe: Fix error handling of class_create("nvme") Alexey Khoroshilov
2015-03-06 22:43 ` Alexey Khoroshilov
2015-03-10 19:18 ` J Freyensee
2015-03-10 19:18   ` J Freyensee
2015-03-10 19:46   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2015-03-10 19:46     ` Matthew Wilcox
2015-03-16 17:22 ` Keith Busch
2015-03-16 17:22   ` Keith Busch
2015-04-07 23:03 ` Keith Busch
2015-04-08  1:09   ` Jens Axboe

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