Re: [PATCH RFC v2 06/29] PCI/MSI: Get rid of useless count ofmsi_desc leftovers

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Alexander.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 07:12:06PM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> @@ -744,23 +744,6 @@ static int msix_capability_init(struct pci_dev *dev,
>  
>  	return 0;
>  
> -out_avail:
> -	if (ret < 0) {
> -		/*
> -		 * If we had some success, report the number of irqs
> -		 * we succeeded in setting up.
> -		 */
> -		struct msi_desc *entry;
> -		int avail = 0;
> -
> -		list_for_each_entry(entry, &dev->msi_list, list) {
> -			if (entry->irq != 0)
> -				avail++;
> -		}
> -		if (avail != 0)
> -			ret = avail;
> -	}

Hmmm... so, before this, the function would have returned the partial
number of irqs that arch set up successfully.  Is it okay to lose that
information?  If so, can you please elaborate a bit more on why it's
okay in the description?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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