[PATCH 1/7] I2c-nomadik: Fix the usage of wait_for_completion_timeout

Chuansheng Liu lcs0208 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 15 05:52:36 EST 2012


timeout is never < 0, so status = timeout is never getting run. This patch delete pointless
code. Could you show the regression? Thanks.

在 2012-11-15,17:57,Srinidhi Kasagar <srinidhi.kasagar at stericsson.com> 写道:

> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:29:53 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>> 
>>>> -       if (timeout < 0) {
>>>> -               dev_err(&dev->adev->dev,
>>>> -                       "wait_for_completion_timeout "
>>>> -                       "returned %d waiting for event\n", timeout);
>>>> -               status = timeout;
>>>> -       }
>>>> -
>>> No, it is wrong. You need to update the status variable in the case of timeout.
>> 
>> Looking at the patch context, such code comes later.
> But it causes regressions; without looking at the "later" code, we can't afford merging
> this code now.
> 
> regards/srinidhi
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