From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] smsc75xx: don't call usbnet_resume if usbnet_suspend fails Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:03:52 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20121128.210352.2215853651070474894.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1354125469-29671-1-git-send-email-steve.glendinning@shawell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: steve.glendinning@shawell.net Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:55054 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753528Ab2K2CDx (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:03:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1354125469-29671-1-git-send-email-steve.glendinning@shawell.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Steve Glendinning Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:57:49 +0000 > If usbnet_suspend returns an error we don't want to call > usbnet_resume to clean up, but instead just return the error. > > If usbnet_suspend *does* succeed, and we have a problem further > on, the desired behaviour is still to call usbnet_resume > to clean up before returning. > > Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning Steve, can you do me a huge favor? Get rid of these silly macros from this driver. Any CPP macro that alters control flow is too evil to live. And we've worked tirelessly to remove every instance of such a macro from the core networking interfaces, because they always lead to hard to diagnose bugs. THanks.