Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] alarmtimer: remove dead return value in clock2alarm()

From: John Stultz
Date: Wed Apr 30 2025 - 18:14:38 EST


On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM Su Hui <suhui@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 'clockid' only can be ALARM_REALTIME and ALARM_BOOTTIME. It's impossible
> to return -1 and callers never check the value of -1.
>
> Only alarm_clock_get_timespec(), alarm_clock_get_ktime(),
> alarm_timer_create() and alarm_timer_nsleep() call clock2alarm(). These
> callers using clockid_to_kclock() to get 'struct k_clock', this ensures
> clock2alarm() never returns -1.
>
> Remove the impossible -1 return value, and add a warn to be aware of any
> misuse of this function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Su Hui <suhui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx>