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From: Quentin Deslandes <quentin.deslandes@itdev.co.uk>
To: John Wyatt <jbwyatt4@gmail.com>
Cc: "outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com"
	<outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com>,
	Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>,
	Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>,
	Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: vt6656: remove unneeded variable: ret
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:15:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200325091541.GA15158@jiffies> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <575f10ed4f3be74c2515464220d17e17d9eae8dc.camel@gmail.com>

On 03/24/20 17:32:01, John Wyatt wrote:
> I do not know what these functions do.
> 
> There is no function documentation for:
> vnt_exit_deep_sleep
> vnt_mac_reg_bits_on
> vnt_mac_reg_bits_off

I understand, however discarding the return value of functions that could
fail is not the best thing to do. Whatever those 3 functions are doing,
you should rely on their return code, and if one of those fail,
vnt_radio_power_on() should fail too.

> I am a new kernel developer intern with the Outreachy program. I am
> trying to fix a style issue reported by Coccinelle. I do not have that
> much experience with writing drivers yet.

Don't worry, I'm not that experienced either. If my request is out of
scope for an Outreachy mentee, a more experienced contributor will pop
in the discussion.

Thanks,
Quentin


  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-30 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-24  6:45 [PATCH 0/2] staging: vt6656: change function from always returning 0 to void John B. Wyatt IV
2020-03-24  6:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: vt6656: remove unneeded variable: ret John B. Wyatt IV
2020-03-24 10:03   ` Quentin Deslandes
2020-03-25  0:32     ` John Wyatt
2020-03-25  9:15       ` Quentin Deslandes [this message]
2020-03-26 23:26         ` John Wyatt
2020-03-27  3:52           ` [Outreachy kernel] " Stefano Brivio
2020-03-27 21:41             ` John Wyatt
2020-03-27  6:34           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-03-27 21:44             ` John Wyatt
2020-03-24  6:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: vt6656: change unused int return value to void John B. Wyatt IV
2020-03-24 17:28 ` [PATCH 0/2] staging: vt6656: change function from always returning 0 " Dan Carpenter

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