From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>,
Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phylib: fix phy_read*_poll_timeout()
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 09:05:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230602090539.6a4fa374@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZHmt9c9VsYxcoXaI@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 09:53:09 +0100 Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > Yes it is :) All this to save the single line of assignment
> > after the read_poll_timeout() "call" ?
>
> Okay, so it seems you don't like it. We can't fix it then, and we'll
> have to go with the BUILD_BUG_ON() forcing all users to use a signed
> varable (which better be larger than a s8 so negative errnos can fit)
> or we just rely on Dan to report the problems.
Wait, did the version I proposed not work?
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230530121910.05b9f837@kernel.org/
I just think the assignment inside the first argument is unnecessarily
unreadable. Maybe it's just me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-02 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-01 15:48 [PATCH net-next] net: phylib: fix phy_read*_poll_timeout() Russell King (Oracle)
2023-06-02 4:33 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-02 4:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-02 8:53 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2023-06-02 16:05 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-06-02 16:17 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2023-06-02 16:34 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2023-06-02 17:10 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-03 6:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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