On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 09:39:14AM -0700, insop.s...@gainspeed.com wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 01:08:36PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 09:38:23AM +0000, Gujulan Elango, Hari Prasath (H.) 
> > wrote:
> > > remove redundant code in this function by introducing a new retval
> > > variable.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Gujulan Elango Hari Prasath <hguju...@visteon.com>
> > 
> > No the original code is quite bad but this patch makes it worse.
> 
> Please elaborate what was 'quite bad' in the original code?
> 
> Regards,
> ISS
> 

Well,this is a trivial patch.It doesn't solve anything.There was some
redundant code,so i thought of simplifying it. As Dan pointed out, the
gs_release_image() returns success always.So there was no point in
checking its return value.

regards,
Hari Prasath

> > 
> > gs_release_image() can't fail, and it should be a void function.
> > 
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/staging/gs_fpgaboot/gs_fpgaboot.c | 18 ++++++++----------
> > >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/gs_fpgaboot/gs_fpgaboot.c 
> > > b/drivers/staging/gs_fpgaboot/gs_fpgaboot.c
> > > index a3a10f9..cc0445c 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/staging/gs_fpgaboot/gs_fpgaboot.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/staging/gs_fpgaboot/gs_fpgaboot.c
> > > @@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ static int gs_fpgaboot(void)
> > >  {
> > >   int err;
> > >   struct fpgaimage        *fimage;
> > > + int retval = 0;
> > >  
> > >   fimage = kmalloc(sizeof(struct fpgaimage), GFP_KERNEL);
> > >   if (!fimage)
> > > @@ -298,44 +299,41 @@ static int gs_fpgaboot(void)
> > >   err = gs_load_image(fimage, file);
> > >   if (err) {
> > 
> >             goto free_fimage;
> > 
> > >           pr_err("gs_load_image error\n");
> > > +         retval = -1;
> > >           goto err_out1;
> > >   }
> > >  
> > >   err = gs_read_image(fimage);
> > >   if (err) {
> > 
> > 
> >             goto release_image;
> > 
> > >           pr_err("gs_read_image error\n");
> > > +         retval = -1;
> > >           goto err_out2;
> > >   }
> > >  
> > >   err = gs_set_download_method(fimage);
> > >   if (err) {
> > 
> >             goto release_image;
> > 
> > >           pr_err("gs_set_download_method error\n");
> > > +         retval = -1;
> > >           goto err_out2;
> > >   }
> > >  
> > >   err = gs_download_image(fimage, bus_2byte);
> > 
> > 
> > release_image:
> >     gs_release_image(fimage);
> > free_fimage:
> >     kfree(fimage);
> > 
> >     return err;
> > 
> > regards,
> > dan carpenter
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