linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V5 1/3] platform/x86: Add Intel Software Defined Silicon driver

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Message-ID: <aa16191c1241473fbfd55995bbba37bd2ab4a41c.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Fri, 04 Feb 2022 02:14:10 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     "David E. Box" <david.e.box@...ux.intel.com>, hdegoede@...hat.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com,
        srinivas.pandruvada@...el.com, mgross@...ux.intel.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        Mark Gross <markgross@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 1/3] platform/x86: Add Intel Software Defined Silicon
 driver

On Thu, 2022-02-03 at 21:30 -0800, David E. Box wrote:
> Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) is a post manufacturing mechanism for
> activating additional silicon features. Features are enabled through a
> license activation process.

Why isn't this a user process and not a kernel one?

> V5
>   - Update kernel version to 5.18 in API doc and copyrights to 2022.
>   - Remove unneeded prototypes.
>   - In binary attribute handlers where ret is only used for errors,
>     replace,
>               return (ret < 0) ? ret : size;
>     with,
>               return ret ?: size;

I think this style overly tricky.

Why not the canonical:

	if (ret < 0)
		return ret;

	return size;