linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Fix a bug in the hot-add code

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Message-ID: <20130712211256.GC7729@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:12:56 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
Cc:	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devel@...uxdriverproject.org" <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
	"olaf@...fle.de" <olaf@...fle.de>,
	"apw@...onical.com" <apw@...onical.com>,
	"jasowang@...hat.com" <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hv: balloon: Fix a bug in the hot-add code

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 09:07:19PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
[...]
> > Well now it might look like a bug that you don't test the result
> > of wait_for_completion_timeout().  Maybe update the comment to
> > explain why it's OK to continue anyway?
> 
> I put in the comment in the patch explaining why it is ok to continue.
[...]

But that is not nearly as easy to see as the comment that is
already *in the code* which your patch isn't updating.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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