Re: [PATCH] Staging: wlan-ng: p80211netdev.c cleanup

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Sep 20 2010 - 20:15:23 EST


On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 08:30:52PM +0200, Nils Radtke wrote:
> Effected preliminary cleanup lead by the idea of kerneljanitor.org .
> As recommended I'm asking for approval of the location of cleanup
> and the manner it happened to know I'm heading in the right
> direction.
>
> Compiles. Not tested.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nils Radtke <lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
> 1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c
> index aa1792c..8104e11 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c
> @@ -176,25 +176,30 @@ static struct net_device_stats *p80211knetdev_get_stats(netdevice_t * netdev)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------*/
> static int p80211knetdev_open(netdevice_t *netdev)
> {
> - int result = 0; /* success */
> + int ret = 0;

Why rename the variable if you don't have to?

> wlandevice_t *wlandev = netdev->ml_priv;
>
> /* Check to make sure the MSD is running */
> - if (wlandev->msdstate != WLAN_MSD_RUNNING)
> - return -ENODEV;
> + if (wlandev->msdstate != WLAN_MSD_RUNNING) {
> + ret = -ENODEV;
> + goto end;
> + }
>
> /* Tell the MSD to open */
> - if (wlandev->open != NULL) {
> - result = wlandev->open(wlandev);
> - if (result == 0) {
> - netif_start_queue(wlandev->netdev);
> - wlandev->state = WLAN_DEVICE_OPEN;
> - }
> - } else {
> - result = -EAGAIN;
> + if (wlandev->open == NULL) {
> + printk(KERN_ERR "Sorry, got wlandev->open == NULL.\n");
> + ret = -EAGAIN;
> + goto end;

Why are you adding new printk() calls? Please use dev_err() if you
really want to do this.

> }
>
> - return result;
> + ret = wlandev->open(wlandev);
> + if (ret) {
> + netif_start_queue(wlandev->netdev);
> + wlandev->state = WLAN_DEVICE_OPEN;
> + }
> +
> +end:
> + return ret;

Please clean up properly for errors.

Same goes for other parts of this patch, care to redo it?

thanks,

greg k-h
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