Re: [PATCH 2/3 RFC] ath10k: wmi: match wait_for_completion_timeout return type

[Nicholas Mc Guire]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Michal Kazior wrote:

> On 12 March 2015 at 16:49, Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Return type of wait_for_completion_timeout is unsigned long not int.
> > An appropriately named unsigned long is added and the assignments fixed up.
> > Rather than returning 0 (timeout) or a more or less random remaining time
> > (completion success) this return 0 or 1 which also resolves the type of the
> > functions being int.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > Checking the call-sites of ath10k_wmi_wait_for_unified_ready and
> > ath10k_wmi_wait_for_service_ready the positive return value (remaining
> > time in jiffies) is never passed up the call-chain nor used so it is
> > cleaner to treat this like a boolean success/fail only (actually the two
> > functions should probably be of type bool - but that does not seem to be
> > common practice in the ath10k code base)
> 
> It'd make sense to have these functions return 0 or -ETIMEDOUT. In
> that case both call sites would need to be adjusted to treat "< 0" or
> "!x" as an error (instead of the current "<= 0") condition and not set
> -ETIMEDOUT themselves.
>
looking at the call sites in ath10k_core_start more or less 
all other initialization calls will treate 0 as success and
!=0 as failure so this is the cleaner solution. as its all
now

status = call()
if(status)
 	error

patch just posted.

thx!
hofrat

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