[PATCH v2 mvebu + mvebu/dt64 1/6] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: fix reply status decoding function

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Wed May 5 09:20:46 PDT 2021


On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 06:04:33PM +0200, Marek Behún wrote:
> On Mon, 3 May 2021 14:22:49 +0200
> Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 10:36:31AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > From: Marek Behún <kabel at kernel.org>
> > > 
> > > The status decoding function mox_get_status() currently contains a dead
> > > code path: if the error status is not MBOX_STS_SUCCESS, it always
> > > returns -EIO, so the comparison to MBOX_STS_FAIL is never executed and
> > > we don't get the actual error code sent by the firmware.
> > > 
> > > Fix this.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <kabel at kernel.org>
> > > Fixes: 389711b37493 ("firmware: Add Turris Mox rWTM firmware driver")  
> > 
> > You have put a fixes tag here, meaning you want it in stable? How does
> > dead code elimination fulfil the stable requirements?
> > 
> > Do any of these changes contain real fixes?
> > 
> >    Andrew
> 
> Andrew, this is not dead code elimination.

Please word you commit message differently.

The status decoding function mox_get_status() currently contains an
incorrect check: ...

	  Andrew



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