linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] omapfb/dss: wait_for_completion_interruptible

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Date:	Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:30:19 +0000
From:	Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
To:	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>
Cc:	Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...com>,
	Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@....samsung.com>,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] omapfb/dss: wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout
 expects long

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 01:21:46PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> On 25/07/16 20:12, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > wait_for_completion_timeout_interruptible returns long not unsigned long.
> > an appropriately typed variable is introduced and assignments fixed up.
> > 
> > Fixes: f76ee892a99e ("omapfb: copy omapdss & displays for omapfb")
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
> > ---
> > 
> > API non-compliance was located by coccinelle
> > 
> > This is mostly cosmetic since the returned value is only compared 
> > at present, however if remaining time (completion occurred) where ever 
> > used, then a signal received would be interpreted as a large remaining 
> > jiffies left, which would be wrong.
> > 
> > Compile tested with: omap2plus_defconfig (implies CONFIG_FB_OMAP2_DSS)
> > 
> > Patch is against 4.7.0-rc7 (localversion-next -next-20160724)
> > 
> >  drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/dispc-compat.c | 7 ++++---
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> Thanks, queued for v4.9. I dropped the "Fixes: " line, as that commit
> only does a copy of the files, so the commit didn't really introduce the
> bug.
>
sorry for the wrong fixes tag - did not notice that - and thanks for
fixing this.

thx!
hofrat