linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/21] usb: phy: use match

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Date:   Thu, 31 May 2018 21:59:16 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Cc:     Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@...wei.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        USB <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/21] usb: phy: use match_string() helper

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 9:56 PM, Sergei Shtylyov
<sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com> wrote:
> On 05/31/2018 09:47 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

>>>> -     int err, i;

>>>> +     err = match_string(usbphy_modes, ARRAY_SIZE(usbphy_modes), phy_type);
>>>> +     if (err < 0)
>>>
>>>    This is one of the few cases when 'err' is not the best name for such a
>>> variable. I'd prefer to see something like 'match' or even 'rc' or 'ret'... :-)
>>
>> Then leaving i would make it?
>    Yes. :-)

So, I leave it to Greg to decide either it's okay in this version, or
needs update with i left untouched.

>> I'm okay with either which just not renames err, b/c it's used with
>> something else in this function.
>
>    Looking at it again, 'err' seems equally bad for the result of
> of_property_read_string()... unless the check there is changed to just *if* (err) --
> this function never returns positive values, 0 means success, others mean error.

While you seems right, this is matter of another change which you are
welcome to propose.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko