> -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 2:58 AM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: Haiyang Zhang; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kernel- > janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [patch] hv: fix return type of hv_post_message() > > This function returns negative error codes, but because the type is u16 > they get truncated into positive numbers. It doesn't look like the > callers care, but we should fix it anyway as a cleanup. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks Dan. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > diff --git a/drivers/hv/hyperv_vmbus.h b/drivers/hv/hyperv_vmbus.h > index 699f0d8..b9426a6 100644 > --- a/drivers/hv/hyperv_vmbus.h > +++ b/drivers/hv/hyperv_vmbus.h > @@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ extern int hv_init(void); > > extern void hv_cleanup(void); > > -extern u16 hv_post_message(union hv_connection_id connection_id, > +extern int hv_post_message(union hv_connection_id connection_id, > enum hv_message_type message_type, > void *payload, size_t payload_size); > > diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv.c b/drivers/hv/hv.c > index 15956bd..86f8885 100644 > --- a/drivers/hv/hv.c > +++ b/drivers/hv/hv.c > @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ void hv_cleanup(void) > * > * This involves a hypercall. > */ > -u16 hv_post_message(union hv_connection_id connection_id, > +int hv_post_message(union hv_connection_id connection_id, > enum hv_message_type message_type, > void *payload, size_t payload_size) > { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
