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From: Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com>
To: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [patch] fix sparc64 cpu_idle()
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:56:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041229225615.GC70906@gaz.sfgoth.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2cd57c9004122911523fe7a71b@mail.gmail.com>

(cc: list trimmed)

Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> -	int ret = -EPERM;
> -
> -	if (current->pid != 0)
> -		goto out;
> -

Maybe just a WARN_ON(current->pid != 0) would be a good compromise... I
imagine that someone added the check for some reason but you're right that
just returning an error code (that presumably noone checks, right?) doesn't
make much sense

-Mitch

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-29 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-27 16:10 [PATCH] fix conflicting cpu_idle() declarations Oleg Nesterov
2004-12-27 16:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-29 19:07   ` [patch] fix sparc64 cpu_idle() Coywolf Qi Hunt
2004-12-29 19:52     ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2004-12-29 22:56       ` Mitchell Blank Jr [this message]
2004-12-30 16:31     ` Oleg Nesterov
2004-12-28  2:55 ` [PATCH] fix conflicting cpu_idle() declarations Hirokazu Takata
2004-12-28  3:09   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-28  3:48 ` James Bottomley

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