From: "James A. Shackleford" <shack@linux.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net,
florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] staging: rtl8712: remove inapplicable comment
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 13:01:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140709170122.GA4315@xavier> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140708101653.GJ25880@mwanda>
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 01:16:53PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:52:41PM -0400, James A Shackleford wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: James A Shackleford <shack@linux.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/rtl8712/osdep_service.h | 5 -----
> > 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/osdep_service.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/osdep_service.h
> > index 77b1443..3dfc473 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/osdep_service.h
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/osdep_service.h
> > @@ -95,11 +95,6 @@ static inline void _set_workitem(_workitem *pwork)
> > #define BIT(x) (1 << (x))
> > #endif
> >
> > -/*
> > -For the following list_xxx operations,
> > -caller must guarantee the atomic context.
> > -Otherwise, there will be racing condition.
> > -*/
> > static inline u32 _down_sema(struct semaphore *sema)
> > {
> > if (down_interruptible(sema))
>
> This function sucks obviously just like the wrappers you deleted earlier.
>
> Only one of the callers checks the return value.
>
> TODO-list: 2014-07-08: rtl8712: delete _down_sema().
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
I completely agree -- most of the stuff in this header is pretty ugly. More
clean-up patches are in the pipe.
Regards,
James Shackleford
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-09 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-25 2:52 [PATCH 1/8] staging: rtl8712: remove wrapper function _init_listhead James A Shackleford
2014-06-25 2:52 ` [PATCH 2/8] staging: rtl8712: remove wrapper function is_list_empty James A Shackleford
2014-06-25 2:52 ` [PATCH 3/8] staging: rtl8712: remove wrapper function list_insert_tail James A Shackleford
2014-06-25 2:52 ` [PATCH 4/8] staging: rtl8712: remove wrapper function list_delete James A Shackleford
2014-06-25 2:52 ` [PATCH 5/8] staging: rtl8712: remove wrapper function get_next James A Shackleford
2014-06-25 2:52 ` [PATCH 6/8] staging: rtl8712: remove function get_list_head James A Shackleford
2014-06-25 2:52 ` [PATCH 7/8] staging: rtl8712: remove wrapper function _queue_empty James A Shackleford
2014-06-25 2:52 ` [PATCH 8/8] staging: rtl8712: remove inapplicable comment James A Shackleford
2014-07-08 10:16 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-07-09 17:01 ` James A. Shackleford [this message]
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