Re: [PATCH] cxl: Fix an error message

From: Andrew Donnellan
Date: Wed May 05 2021 - 22:30:31 EST


On 6/5/21 5:38 am, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
'rc' is known to be 0 here.
Initialize 'rc' with the expected error code before using it.

I would prefer:

"In cxl_add_chardev(), if the call to device_create() fails, we print the error message before 'rc' is set correctly, and therefore always print 0. Move the error message after setting 'rc'."


While at it, avoid the affectation of 'rc' in a 'if' to make things more
obvious and linux style.

I strongly agree with this, some of the other cxl developers don't but they are wrong :)


Fixes: f204e0b8ce ("cxl: Driver code for powernv PCIe based cards for userspace access")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>

Apart from my comment above:

Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for catching this!

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