linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 4/5] RapidIO: Add switch domain routines

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Date:	Tue, 4 May 2010 16:24:57 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Matt Porter <mporter@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Li Yang <leoli@...escale.com>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@...go.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 4/5] RapidIO: Add switch domain routines

On Mon,  3 May 2010 11:45:57 -0400
Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@....com> wrote:

> +static int
> +idtcps_set_domain(struct rio_mport *mport, u16 destid, u8 hopcount,
> +		       u8 sw_domain)
> +{
> +	/*
> +	 * Switch domain configuration operates only at global level
> +	 */
> +	rio_mport_write_config_32(mport, destid, hopcount,
> +				  IDTCPS_RIO_DOMAIN, (u32)sw_domain);
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int
> +idtcps_get_domain(struct rio_mport *mport, u16 destid, u8 hopcount,
> +		       u8 *sw_domain)
> +{
> +	u32 regval;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Switch domain configuration operates only at global level
> +	 */
> +	rio_mport_read_config_32(mport, destid, hopcount,
> +				IDTCPS_RIO_DOMAIN, &regval);
> +
> +	*sw_domain = (u8)(regval & 0xff);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}

This ignores the return values from rio_mport_write_config_*().

AFACIT these things always return hard-wired 0 anyway.  Perhaps we
should give up and change ->cread() and friends to return void.  That
beats the alternative of adding lots of untestable test-n-return
unwinding code.

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