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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: "Thomas, Sujith" <sujith.thomas@intel.com>
Cc: "Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	sam@ravnborg.org, lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/10] introduce intel_menlow platform specific driver
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:45:42 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47943186.8030001@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <05B550FD4BD2014E841D83547B6260080281A8A8@bgsmsx411.gar.corp.intel.com>

>>> +static int __init intel_menlow_module_init(void)
>>> +{
>>> +	int result = -ENODEV;
>>> +	acpi_status status;
>>> +	unsigned long enable;
>>> +
>>> +	if (acpi_disabled)
>>> +		return result;
>>> +
>>> +	/* Looking for the \_TZ.GSTS method */
>>> +	status = acpi_evaluate_integer(NULL, BIOS_ENABLED, NULL, &enable);
>>> +	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status) || !enable)
>>> +		return -ENODEV;
>>> +
>>> +	/* Looking for ACPI device MEM0 with hardware id INT0002 */
>>> +	result = acpi_bus_register_driver(&intel_menlow_memory_driver);
>>> +	if (result)
>>> +		return result;
>>> +
>>> +	/* Looking for sensors in each ACPI thermal zone */
>>> +	status = acpi_walk_namespace(ACPI_TYPE_THERMAL, ACPI_ROOT_OBJECT,
>>> +				     ACPI_UINT32_MAX,
>>> +				     intel_menlow_register_sensor, NULL, NULL);
>>> +	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
>>> +		result = -ENODEV;
>>> +
>> It seems to me this should be 'return -ENODEV;'
>>
>> You can just eliminate variable result, because result will be
>> -ENODEV only.
> I disagree. "result" is required to store the return value from acpi_bus_register_driver which may be different from ENODEV. Otherwise it's all -ENODEV.
> 
> :-Sujith

Indead, I overlooked it.

But the above 'result = -ENODEV;' should be 'return -ENODEV;', right?

>>> +	return 0;
>>> +}


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-21  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-17  7:51 [PATCH 9/10] introduce intel_menlow platform specific driver Zhang Rui
2008-01-17  8:18 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-17 17:20 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-01-17 19:51   ` Len Brown
2008-01-17 20:51     ` Randy Dunlap
2008-01-18  3:32   ` Zhang Rui
2008-01-18  3:55     ` Li Zefan
2008-01-21  5:26       ` Thomas, Sujith
2008-01-21  5:45         ` Li Zefan [this message]
2008-01-25  3:45           ` Zhang Rui
2008-01-21  9:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-21 14:19   ` Thomas, Sujith
2008-01-23 15:58     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-24 21:39   ` Len Brown

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