linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] tg3: fix return value check in tg3_read

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Message-Id: <20101231.123116.229747013.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:31:16 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dsterba@...e.cz
Cc:	mcarlson@...adcom.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, mchan@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tg3: fix return value check in tg3_read_vpd()

From: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:40:31 +0100

> Besides -ETIMEDOUT and -EINTR, pci_read_vpd may return other error
> values like -ENODEV or -EINVAL which are ignored due to the buggy
> check, but the data are not read from VPD anyway and this is checked
> subsequently with at most 3 needless loop iterations. This does not
> show up as a runtime bug.
> 
> CC: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
> CC: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>

Applied, thanks.
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