From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
To: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
lenb@kernel.org, rjw@sisk.pl, liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
tj@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, joe@perches.com,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] acpi: Return -ENOENT in acpi_table_parse() and fix wrong comment.
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:39:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1378330785.10300.982.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378197941-26479-5-git-send-email-tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 16:45 +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> The comment about return value of acpi_table_parse() is incorrect.
> This patch fix it.
>
> Since all callers only check if the function succeeded or not, this
> patch simplifies the semantics by returning -errno for all failure
> cases. This will also simply the comment.
>
> As suggested by Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>, also change the stub
> in linux/acpi.h to return -ENODEV.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Thanks,
-Toshi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-04 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-03 8:45 [PATCH v2 0/4] acpi: Fix and cleanup in acpi Tang Chen
2013-09-03 8:45 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] acpi, numa, mem_hotplug: Kill save_add_info() Tang Chen
2013-09-03 8:45 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] acpi cleanup: Use pr_{info|err}() instead of printk() in arch/x86/mm/srat.c Tang Chen
2013-09-05 0:33 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-09-03 8:45 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] acpi: Check if @id is NULL in acpi_table_parse() Tang Chen
2013-09-03 8:45 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] acpi: Return -ENOENT in acpi_table_parse() and fix wrong comment Tang Chen
2013-09-04 21:39 ` Toshi Kani [this message]
2013-09-04 23:50 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] acpi: Fix and cleanup in acpi Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-09-05 1:56 ` Tang Chen
2013-09-05 11:59 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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