linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] usb: hub: remove obsolete while cycle in hub

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1409121020500.1180-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:23:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.cz>
cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...atus.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] usb: hub: remove obsolete while cycle in hub_event()

On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, Petr Mladek wrote:

> The USB hub events are proceed by workqueue instead of kthread now.
> The result is that hub_event() function processes only one event.
> The while cycle was not removed earlier to show the real changes when
> switching to the workqueue.
> 
> This patch also consolidates the goto targets and rename them from "loop*"
> to "out*".
> 
> When touching the code, it fixes also formatting of dev_err() and dev_dbg()
> calls to make checkpatch.pl happy :-)

Although the reason given in the description above is not really
accurate, removing the loop in hub_events is a reasonable thing to do.  
That loop doesn't serve any purpose as far as I can see.

Alan Stern

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