linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] floppy: remove check for allocated queue on do_floppy

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Message-ID: <20120813162242.GB23193@herton-Z68MA-D2H-B3>
Date:	Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:22:46 -0300
From:	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
To:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] floppy: remove check for allocated queue on
 do_floppy_init error handling

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 01:36:53PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 04:59:50PM -0300, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> > The check "if (disks[dr]->queue)" check is bogus, if we reach there
> > for each dr should exist an queue allocated (note that we decrement dr
> > first on entering the loop).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
> 
> As mentioned in second patch, I like going trhough full array of drives
> and do cleanup as needed instead of relying on "dr" variable. 
> 
> But if you don't like that, then I am not as such against this approach.
> Was just trying to keep all put_disk() at one place.

Ok, I'll drop this, and do a full cleanup. I just ended up doing the
minimal work, but I'm not against cleaning this. I still want to keep
the second patch, as being a simple/appropriate bug fix for stable. I'll
submit a new series soon. Thanks for looking at this series.

> 
> Thanks
> Vivek
> 

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