linux-kernel - Re: [patch V2 12/38] posix-cpu-timers: Remove pointless return value check

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Date:   Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:15:25 +0200
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [patch V2 12/38] posix-cpu-timers: Remove pointless return value
 check

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 09:08:59PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> set_process_cpu_timer() checks already whether the clock id is valid. No
> point in checking the return value of the sample function. That allows to
> simplify the sample function later.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>