Re: [PATCH 2/4] usb: hub: remove obsolete while cycle in hub_event()

From: Petr Mládek
Date: Wed Sep 17 2014 - 11:25:05 EST


On Fri 12-09-14 10:23:26, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, Petr Mladek wrote:
>
> > The USB hub events are proceed by workqueue instead of kthread now.
> > The result is that hub_event() function processes only one event.
> > The while cycle was not removed earlier to show the real changes when
> > switching to the workqueue.
> >
> > This patch also consolidates the goto targets and rename them from "loop*"
> > to "out*".
> >
> > When touching the code, it fixes also formatting of dev_err() and dev_dbg()
> > calls to make checkpatch.pl happy :-)
>
> Although the reason given in the description above is not really
> accurate, removing the loop in hub_events is a reasonable thing to do.
> That loop doesn't serve any purpose as far as I can see.

IMHO, the while cycle was needed when hub_events() was used in
khubd thread. More events could had been added to the list before
the thread was scheduled.

Therefore I think that the above description makes sense.

And this is why I did not change the order of the patches in v2 of the patch
set. I sent all patches again because this one and the 3rd one needed
refresh.

Best Regards,
Petr
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