From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Srinidhi Kasagar Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH 1/7] I2c-nomadik: Fix the usage of wait_for_completion_timeout Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:27:42 +0530 Message-ID: <20121115095741.GA6280@bnru10> References: <1352222317.15558.1584.camel@cliu38-desktop-build> <20121115084858.GA29668@bnru10> <20121115092953.GA418@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121115092953.GA418-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Wolfram Sang Cc: "chuansheng.liu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" , "linus.walleij-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org" , "linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" , "linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:29:53 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > > > - if (timeout < 0) { > > > - dev_err(&dev->adev->dev, > > > - "wait_for_completion_timeout " > > > - "returned %d waiting for event\n", timeout); > > > - status = timeout; > > > - } > > > - > > No, it is wrong. You need to update the status variable in the case of timeout. > > Looking at the patch context, such code comes later. But it causes regressions; without looking at the "later" code, we can't afford merging this code now. regards/srinidhi