Re: [PATCH] libata: fixup return type of wait_for_completion_timeout

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On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 04:55:17PM +0100, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 03:39:36AM -0500, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > > -	if (!rc) {
> > > +	if (irq_timeout == 0) {
> > 
> > Why == 0 tho?  This always bothers me.  To match this style, we'd use
> > != 0 to test the other direction.  In what way is "if (ret != 0)"
> > better than "if (ret)"?  We're negating the two tests needlessly.
> >
> The == 0 seemed better to me than ! here because it would read
> 
>   if (not irq_timeout) {
> 
> while it actually did time out - but this could be resolved by renaming
> irq_timeout to time_left (as was suggested by Sergei Shtylyov
> <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> for a similar patch) and then it 
> would read:
> 
>    if (time_left == 0) {
> 
> which would nicely describe the timeout state.
> 
> if that addresses your concerns then I'll fix it up and repost.

Plesae just do !

Thanks.

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tejun
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