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From: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>,
	Azael Avalos <coproscefalo@gmail.com>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] toshiba_acpi: fix and cleanup toshiba_kbd_bl_mode_store()
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 17:48:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140903174815.GA7153@vmdeb7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140903114437.GA3359@mwanda>

On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 02:44:37PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The current code just returns -EINVAL because mode can't be equal to
> both 1 and 2.
> 
> Also this function is messy so I have cleaned it up:
> 1) Remove initializers like "int time = -1".  Initializing variables to
>    garbage values turns off GCC's uninitialized variable warnings so it
>    can lead to bugs.
> 2) Use kstrtoint() instead of sscanf().
> 3) Use SCI_KBD_MODE_FNZ and SCI_KBD_MODE_AUTO instead of magic numbers 1
>    and 2.
> 4) Don't check for "mode = -1" because that can't happen.
> 5) Preserve the error code from toshiba_kbd_illum_status_set().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Queued, thanks.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center

      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-03 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-03 11:44 [patch] toshiba_acpi: fix and cleanup toshiba_kbd_bl_mode_store() Dan Carpenter
2014-09-03 17:48 ` Darren Hart [this message]

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