Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:37:39 -0700 | From | Darren Hart <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] eeepc-laptop: simplify parse_arg() |
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:05:20PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote: > parse_arg() has three possible return values: > -EINVAL if sscanf(), in short, fails; > zero if "count" is zero; and > "count" in all other cases > > But "count" will never be zero. See, parse_arg() is called by the > various store functions. And the callchain of these functions starts > with sysfs_kf_write(). And that function checks for a zero "count". So > we can stop checking for a zero "count", drop the "count" argument > entirely, and transform parse_arg() into a function that returns zero on > success or a negative error. That, in turn, allows to make those store > functions just return "count" on success. The net effect is that the > code becomes a bit easier to understand. > > While we're at it, let store_sys_acpi() return whatever error set_acpi() > returns instead of remapping it to EIO. > > A nice side effect is that this GCC warning is silenced too: > drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c: In function ‘store_sys_acpi’: > drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c:279:10: warning: ‘value’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] > int rv, value; > > Which is, of course, the reason to have a look at parse_arg(). > > Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Queued, thanks Paul.
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