linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 05/10] x86/mce/genpool: Make mce_gen_pool

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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 00:42:41 +0000
From: "Zhuo, Qiuxu" <qiuxu.zhuo@...el.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	"bp@...en8.de" <bp@...en8.de>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 05/10] x86/mce/genpool: Make mce_gen_pool_create() return
 explicit error codes

> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> [...]
> On Thu, Oct 10 2024 at 23:31, Qiuxu Zhuo wrote:
> 
> > Make mce_gen_pool_create() return explicit error codes for better
> > readability.
> 
> What's the point?
> 
> All error paths including gen_pool_add() return -ENOMEM.
> 
> The call site just cares about success or fail.
> 
> So this can simply be converted to bool and return true on success and false
> otherwise.

Yes, this way it's much cleaner. 
Thank you, Thomas, for your kind guidance.

> Thanks,
> 
>         tglx