[PATCH 02/11] staging: vchiq_arm: Drop obsolete comment

Stefan Wahren wahrenst at gmx.net
Wed Jun 5 03:02:40 PDT 2024


Hi Laurent,

Am 05.06.24 um 08:52 schrieb Laurent Pinchart:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 07:28:55PM +0200, Stefan Wahren wrote:
>> The BUG_ON has been replaced with WARN_ON. So we can drop the
>> comment.
> Note https://lwn.net/Articles/969923/ :-)
>
> This being said, I think the comment can be dropped, regardless of
> whether or not we drop the WARN_ON() later.
thanks i wasn't aware of that article. I think, we can address this in a
separate series and try to replace WARN_ON() with dev_warn() in cases it
makes sense.
>
> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <wahrenst at gmx.net>
>> ---
>>   drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c | 1 -
>>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
>> index e2f4aa00cb70..515cdcba043d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
>> @@ -1451,7 +1451,6 @@ vchiq_release_internal(struct vchiq_state *state, struct vchiq_service *service)
>>
>>   	write_lock_bh(&arm_state->susp_res_lock);
>>   	if (!arm_state->videocore_use_count || !(*entity_uc)) {
>> -		/* Don't use BUG_ON - don't allow user thread to crash kernel */
>>   		WARN_ON(!arm_state->videocore_use_count);
>>   		WARN_ON(!(*entity_uc));
>>   		ret = -EINVAL;




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