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Date:	Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:01:45 +0000
From:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mfd: sta2x11-mfd: use named constants for
 pci_power_t values

On Fri, 03 Jan 2014, Julia Lawall wrote:

> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
> 
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression pdev;
> @@
> 
> pci_set_power_state(pdev,
> - 0
> + PCI_D0
>  )
> // </smpl>

I'm happy with the code and that you used Coccinelle to discover the
issue, but I feel a little more explanation would be helpful to
readers.

Why is (pci_power_t __force) 0 better than 0?

> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/mfd/sta2x11-mfd.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/sta2x11-mfd.c b/drivers/mfd/sta2x11-mfd.c
> index 0d42e40..5b72db0 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/sta2x11-mfd.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/sta2x11-mfd.c
> @@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ static int sta2x11_mfd_resume(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>  {
>  	int err;
>  
> -	pci_set_power_state(pdev, 0);
> +	pci_set_power_state(pdev, PCI_D0);
>  	err = pci_enable_device(pdev);
>  	if (err)
>  		return err;
> 

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