netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/4] ath10k: a few incorrect return handling fix-up

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Date:	Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:18:52 +0300
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:	Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@....qualcomm.com>
CC:	Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@...to.com>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@...il.com>,
	Yanbo Li <yanbol@....qualcomm.com>, ath10k@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ath10k: a few incorrect return handling fix-up

Hello.

On 12/30/2014 03:20 PM, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:

> wait_for_completion_timeout does not return negative values so the tests
> for <= 0 are not needed and the case differentiation in the error handling
> path unnecessary.

    I decided to verify your statement and I saw that it seems wrong. 
do_wait_for_common() can return -ERESTARTSYS and the return value gets 
returned by its callers unchanged.

> patch was only compile tested x86_64_defconfig + CONFIG_ATH_CARDS=m
> CONFIG_ATH10K=m

> patch is against linux-next 3.19.0-rc1 -next-20141226

    Rather patches. It would have been better to send one patch instead of 4 
patches with the same name.

WBR, Sergei

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