From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chen Gang Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/xenbus: Use 'void' instead of 'int' for the return of xenbus_switch_state() Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 18:10:51 +0800 Message-ID: <542A81AB.3050702@gmail.com> References: <5425961A.5000604@gmail.com> <542A7E0E.9050702@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" To: David Vrabel , konrad.wilk@oracle.com, ian.campbell@citrix.com, wei.liu2@citrix.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, bhelgaas@google.com, jgross@suse.com, yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn, mukesh.rathor@oracle.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <542A7E0E.9050702@citrix.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 9/30/14 17:55, David Vrabel wrote: > On 26/09/14 17:36, Chen Gang wrote: >> When xenbus_switch_state() fails, it will call xenbus_switch_fatal() >> internally, so need not return any status value, then use 'void' instead >> of 'int' for xenbus_switch_state() and __xenbus_switch_state(). >> >> Also need be sure that all callers which check the return value must let >> 'err' be 0. >> >> And also need change the related comments for xenbus_switch_state(). > > Since this patch does not fix a bug and there is no unanimous agreement > on the API change I'm not going to apply it (nor the previous version). > OK, at least for me, it is no problems. But I still recommend to improve it in the future, it is not a good idea to let all related things remain in current condition (for me, at lease need some related code comments for it). Thanks. -- Chen Gang Open, share, and attitude like air, water, and life which God blessed