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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>, <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	<boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>, <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
	<mukesh.rathor@oracle.com>
Cc: <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/3 v2] xen/xenbus: Improve failure processing code for __xenbus_switch_state()
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:04:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54203A73.8030103@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <541AE5C4.2070409@gmail.com>

On 18/09/14 15:01, Chen Gang wrote:
> When failure occurs, need return failure code instead of 0, or some of
> indirect upper callers may misunderstand.
> 
> e.g. in "block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c":
> 
>     connect() -> xenbus_switch_state() -> __xenbus_switch_state().

Can you make xenbus_switch_state() void?  The callers don't need to do
any error handling.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-22 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-18 13:58 [PATCH 0/3 v2] xen/xenbus: Several improvements for 'xenbus_client.c' Chen Gang
2014-09-18 13:59 ` [PATCH 1/3 v2] xen/xenbus: Correct the comments for xenbus_grant_ring() Chen Gang
2014-09-18 14:00 ` [PATCH 2/3 v2] xen/xenbus: Remove BUG_ON() when error string trucated Chen Gang
2014-09-18 14:01 ` [PATCH 3/3 v2] xen/xenbus: Improve failure processing code for __xenbus_switch_state() Chen Gang
2014-09-22 15:04   ` David Vrabel [this message]
2014-09-22 15:51     ` [Xen-devel] " Chen Gang
2014-09-22 16:01       ` David Vrabel
2014-09-23  1:56         ` Chen Gang

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