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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net,
	paskripkin@gmail.com, straube.linux@gmail.com, martin@kaiser.cx,
	abdun.nihaal@gmail.com, philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com,
	linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: r8188eu: convert rtw_pwr_wakeup to correct error code semantics
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:35:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220726133559.GP2338@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220725220745.12739-1-phil@philpotter.co.uk>

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 11:07:45PM +0100, Phillip Potter wrote:
> Convert the rtw_pwr_wakeup function to use 0 on success and an appropriate
> error code on error. For the first failure block where ips_leave is
> invoked, use -ENOMEM as this is the main cause of failure here anyway.
> For the second failure block, use -EBUSY, as it seems the most
> appropriate.
> 
> Finally, within the functions rtw_wx_set_mode, rtw_wx_set_wap,
> rtw_wx_set_scan and rtw_wx_set_essid, pass the error code on from
> rtw_pwr_wakeup as appropriate now that it is converted.
> 
> This gets the driver closer to removal of the non-standard _SUCCESS and
> _FAIL definitions, which are inverted compared to the standard in-kernel
> error code mechanism.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
> ---
> 
> Changes from V1: Act on feedback from Dan Carpenter:
> * Try to use more appropriate error codes than -EPERM.
> * Revert the places where existing -1 was converted as they are out of
>   scope.
> * Preserve error codes in places where calling function already uses
>   proper negative semantics, so that they can be passed through to the
>   caller.
> 

This is a much better patch, right?  Everything hangs together better.

There are seven callers which need to be updated and all of them are
updated.

Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-26 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-25 22:07 [PATCH v2] staging: r8188eu: convert rtw_pwr_wakeup to correct error code semantics Phillip Potter
2022-07-26  5:09 ` Philipp Hortmann
2022-07-26 13:35 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2022-07-26 15:46   ` Dan Carpenter
2022-07-26 22:14     ` Phillip Potter
2022-07-27  6:33 ` Greg KH
2022-07-27 12:43   ` Dan Carpenter
2022-07-27 12:47     ` Greg KH

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