linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3 RFC] ath10k: wmi: match wait_for_completion

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Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:24:09 +0100
From:	Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
To:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@....qualcomm.com>
Cc:	Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ath10k@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3 RFC] ath10k: wmi: match wait_for_completion_timeout
	return type

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Kalle Valo wrote:

> Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org> writes:
> 
> > Return type of wait_for_completion_timeout is unsigned long not int.
> > An appropriately named unsigned long is added and the assignments fixed up.
> > Rather than returning 0 (timeout) or a more or less random remaining time
> > (completion success) this return 0 or 1 which also resolves the type of the
> > functions being int.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
> 
> Why does patch 2 in this patchset have RFC in the title but patches 1
> and 3 not? That just makes me confused, I can't tell what you want me to
> do with the patches. Normally I just drop all patches (or patchsets)
> which have RFC, and that's what I'm going to do now.
> 
> To save everyone's time, when submitting something please state clearly
> what's your intention.
>
ok - was simply unsure about the proposed change 
and 1 was a trivial cleanup (which should have been 
sent out as a seperate patch and not part of a series - my mistake)

Will fix this up and repost it.

sorry for the screwup - no intent to wast anybodies time.

thx!
hofrat
 
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