Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: use proper return type for wait_for_completion_timeout

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Tue Apr 30 2019 - 05:58:55 EST


On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 05:27:25AM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> wait_for_completion_timeout() returns unsigned long (0 on timeout or
> remaining jiffies) not int.
>

Yeah, but it's fine though because 10000 / 256 fits into int without a
problem.

I'm not sure this sort of patch is worth it when it's just a style
debate instead of a bugfix. I'm a little bit torn about this. In
Smatch, I run into this issue one in a while where Smatch doesn't know
if the timeout is less than int. Right now I hacked the DB to say that
these functions always return < INT_MAX.

Anyway, for sure the commit message should say that it's just a cleanup
and not a bugfix.

regards,
dan carpenter