Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: r8188eu: Use usb_control_msg_recv/send() in usbctrl_vendorreq()

["Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, August 24, 2021 10:13:46 AM CEST Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> On 8/24/21 1:37 AM, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > Replace usb_control_msg() with the new usb_control_msg_recv() and
> > usb_control_msg_send() API of USB Core in usbctrl_vendorreq().
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > Thanks to Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com> for his review of the
> > RFC patch.
> >   
> > drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_ops_linux.c | 25 ++++++++++-----------
> > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> > 
> > [...]
> >
> Hi, Fabio!
> 
> Christophe is right about semantic part. 

Hi Pavel,

I haven't yet read Christophe's message (but I'm going to do it ASAP). 
I hope he found out what is wrong with the code, what made Phil's tests
fail.

> Also,
> 
> if (!status) {
> 
> } else {
> 	if (status < 0) {		<-
> 					  |
> 	} else {			  |
> 					  |
> 	}				<-
> }					
> 
> Extra if-else is not needed, since status can be 0 and < 0, there is no 
> 3rd state, like it was before.

Correct, thanks!

Now I read the following from the documentation of the new API...

"Return: If successful, 0 is returned, Otherwise, a negative error number."

I'll remove that status < 0 check and whatever else is no more necessary.
Thanks, again :)

Regards,

Fabio

> With regards,
> Pavel Skripkin
>