linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 15/15] staging: exfat: Clean up return codes

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Date:   Thu, 24 Oct 2019 09:29:00 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/15] staging: exfat: Clean up return codes -
 FFS_SUCCESS

On Thu, 2019-10-24 at 11:53 -0400, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> Just replace FFS_SUCCESS with a literal 0.

[]

> diff --git a/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_cache.c b/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_cache.c
[]
> @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static u8 *FAT_getblk(struct super_block *sb, sector_t sec)
>  
>  	FAT_cache_insert_hash(sb, bp);
>  
> -	if (sector_read(sb, sec, &bp->buf_bh, 1) != FFS_SUCCESS) {
> +	if (sector_read(sb, sec, &bp->buf_bh, 1) != 0) {

Probably nicer to just drop the != 0

> diff --git a/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c b/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c
[]
> @@ -768,13 +768,13 @@ static int ffsReadFile(struct inode *inode, struct file_id_t *fid, void *buffer,
>  
>  		if ((offset == 0) && (oneblkread == p_bd->sector_size)) {
>  			if (sector_read(sb, LogSector, &tmp_bh, 1) !=
> -			    FFS_SUCCESS)
> +			    0)

especially for these split line tests