Re: ide_timer_expiry() - shouldn't 'wait' be int?

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On Monday 02 March 2009, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello, I wrote:
> 
> >> vi drivers/ide/ide-io.c +906 and note:
> 
> >> void ide_timer_expiry (unsigned long data)
> >> {
> >>     ide_expiry_t *expiry = hwif->expiry;
> >>     ...
> >>     unsigned long   wait = -1;
> 
> >    Hm, haven't nothiced that this is *unsigned*.
> 
> >>         ...
> >>         if (expiry) {
> >>             ...
> >>             wait = expiry(drive);
> >>             if (wait > 0) { /* continue */
> 
> >> also note that in include/linux/ide.h:883:
> 
> >> typedef int (ide_expiry_t)(ide_drive_t *);
> 
> >> doesn't this mean that expiry returns int, and wait therefore should
> >> be int as well?
> 
> >    It rather means that ide_expiry_t() should return unsigned.
> 
>     Er, not really, as it can return -1 too.

It can just return 0 instead.
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