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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:14:52 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com> To: Henry Ptasinski <henryp@...adcom.com> Cc: Greg Dietsche <Gregory.Dietsche@....edu>, "devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>, Dowan Kim <dowan@...adcom.com>, "gregkh@...e.de" <gregkh@...e.de>, "linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: brcm80211: return false if not a broadcom board On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 06:36:16PM -0700, Henry Ptasinski wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 03:25:09PM -0700, Greg Dietsche wrote: > > This code looks wrong to me. I think it meant to return false > > if the board's vendor id isn't Broadcom's. > > > > Compile tested only. > > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Dietsche <Gregory.Dietsche@....edu> > > --- > > drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wlc_bmac.c | 2 +- > > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wlc_bmac.c b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wlc_bmac.c > > index 4534926..ee13238 100644 > > --- a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wlc_bmac.c > > +++ b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wlc_bmac.c > > @@ -1943,7 +1943,7 @@ static bool wlc_validboardtype(struct wlc_hw_info *wlc_hw) > > } > > > > if (wlc_hw->sih->boardvendor != PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROADCOM) > > - return goodboard; > > + goodboard = false; > > > > return goodboard; > > } > > Actually, the original code is correct. > > For boards with the Broadcom ID, this function checks that the boardrev is > sane. Dev boards that aren't properly configured may have invalid info, so this > check is mainly to catch that problem. > > For boards with any other vendor, we don't have any sanity checks that we know > should be done, so the board info is always considered good. > Sounds like it should be "goodboard = true;" then. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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