linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86, numa: cleanup x86_acpi_numa

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Message-ID: <20110221094628.GH31267@htj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:46:28 +0100
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86, numa: cleanup x86_acpi_numa_init()

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 08:03:48PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > make it more readable. put valid checking together.
> > 
> > Also restore old acpi_numa_init(). we don't need to touch it
> > because already have x86 own wrapper.
> > 
> > We can limit change to x86 code only.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
> 
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>

I'm not taking this one.  It's pointless and to me it seems worse.
Why does the function return the count?  What difference do the counts
of 5 and 10 make to the caller?  All it can indicate is failure or
success and 0 and -errno are much better return values for that.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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