Re: [PATCH] net, wireless: Don't return uninitialized in__cfg80211_stop_sched_scan()

From: Luciano Coelho
Date: Wed Jun 29 2011 - 16:41:41 EST


On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 22:27 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 22:13 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > If the 'driver_initiated' function argument to
> > __cfg80211_stop_sched_scan() is not 0 then we'll return an
> > uninitialized 'ret' from the function.
>
> 'err'. I also dislike the initialisation, can we just replace the
> "return err;" at the end of the function with "return 0;" instead?

Luckily we were never using the return value when passing
driver_initiate =- false.

And I agree with you, there's no use to return err at the end. Better
to simply return 0.


> Luca, should it maybe be return -ENOENT anyway in the !sched_scan_req
> case?

We could do that. I had just thought that stopping a scan that is not
running would just be a NOP, but if you prefer to return an error in
that case, I can do it.

--
Cheers,
Luca.

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