linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 6/8] arm,arm64,drivers: reduce scope of cap_parsing

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Message-ID: <20170525131307.GC16244@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 May 2017 15:13:07 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, vincent.guittot@...aro.org,
        robh+dt@...nel.org, mark.rutland@....com, linux@....linux.org.uk,
        sudeep.holla@....com, lorenzo.pieralisi@....com,
        catalin.marinas@....com, will.deacon@....com,
        morten.rasmussen@....com, dietmar.eggemann@....com,
        broonie@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/8] arm,arm64,drivers: reduce scope of
 cap_parsing_failed

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 03:43:14PM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:
> Reduce the scope of cap_parsing_failed (making it static in
> drivers/base/arch_topology.c) by slightly changing {arm,arm64} DT
> parsing code.
> 
> For arm checking for !cap_parsing_failed before calling normalize_
> cpu_capacity() is superfluous, as returning an error from parse_
> cpu_capacity() (above) means cap_from _dt is set to false.
> 
> For arm64 we can simply check if raw_capacity points to something,
> which is not if capacity parsing has failed.
> 
> Suggested-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>
> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>


Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>