From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: chenhui.zhao@freescale.com, Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>,
"paulus@samba.org" <paulus@samba.org>,
"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: kernel: remove useless code which related with 'max_cpus'
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:16:21 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1374729381.6142.59.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130725031501.GA15673@concordia>
On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 13:15 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > But for API (also include the internal API), at least, better to always
> > provide the return value which can indicate failure by negative number
> > (if succeed can return the meanness value, e.g. the number of cpus).
>
> Are we still talking about this?
>
> There is no point returning a value when no one checks it. Which is the
> case here.
Right. The return value is historical, it dates from when we didn't have
cpu_possible_mask etc...
Nowadays, the probe() routine is just some early init, and might also
affect those masks if needed, the return value has become obsolete.
You are welcome to post a patch removing it.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-25 5:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-22 5:58 [PATCH] powerpc: kernel: remove useless code which related with 'max_cpus' Chen Gang
2013-07-22 6:18 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-07-22 6:27 ` Chen Gang
2013-07-22 6:40 ` [PATCH v2] " Chen Gang
2013-07-22 6:51 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-07-22 7:03 ` Chen Gang
2013-07-23 13:44 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-07-24 0:28 ` Chen Gang
2013-07-24 1:16 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-07-24 2:09 ` Chen Gang
2013-07-25 3:15 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-07-25 4:02 ` Chen Gang
2013-07-25 5:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2013-07-25 5:24 ` Chen Gang
2013-07-25 5:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-25 6:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-25 6:30 ` Chen Gang
2013-07-25 6:17 ` Chen Gang
2013-07-25 7:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-25 7:59 ` Chen Gang
2013-07-25 8:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-25 8:22 ` Chen Gang
2013-07-25 8:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-25 8:36 ` Chen Gang
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