Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers: staging: wilc1000: Replace message queue with standard Linux lists

[Dan Carpenter]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:43:55PM +0530, Chandra S Gorentla wrote:
>  - The message queue is replaced with standard Linux linked list
>  - kmem_cache is used for list members
>  - A check for return value of receive method is added
>  - GFP_ATOMIC is changed to GFP_KERNEL
>  - A few other related minor changes

These should be listed and explained.

>  
>  	while (1) {
> -		wilc_mq_recv(&gMsgQHostIF, &msg, sizeof(struct host_if_msg), &u32Ret);
> +		ret = wilc_mq_recv(&gMsgQHostIF, &msg,
> +					sizeof(struct host_if_msg), &u32Ret);
> +		if (ret)
> +			continue;
> +

I asked before if this was a forever loop and never got a response.
Also what does this have to do with list macros?

regards,
dan carpenter
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