On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Jesper Juhl wrote: >> > >> >> On Sat, 13 Oct 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: >> >> > [...] >> > Currently there are two checks for 'rc' being less than zero with no >> > change to 'rc' between the two, so the second is just dead code. >> > The intention seems to have been to assign the return value of >> > 'stk1160_read_reg()' to 'rc' before the (currently dead) second check >> > and then test /that/. This patch does that. >> > >> >> This is an overly complicated explanation for such a small patch. >> Can you try to simplify it? >> > How's this? > > > From: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:16:37 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] [media] stk1160: Check return value of stk1160_read_reg() in stk1160_i2c_read_reg() > > Remember to collect the exit status from 'stk1160_read_reg()' in 'rc' > before testing it for less than zero. > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160-i2c.c | 3 +-- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160-i2c.c b/drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160-i2c.c > index 176ac93..a2370e4 100644 > --- a/drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160-i2c.c > +++ b/drivers/media/usb/stk1160/stk1160-i2c.c > @@ -116,10 +116,9 @@ static int stk1160_i2c_read_reg(struct stk1160 *dev, u8 addr, > if (rc < 0) > return rc; > > - stk1160_read_reg(dev, STK1160_SBUSR_RD, value); > + rc = stk1160_read_reg(dev, STK1160_SBUSR_RD, value); > if (rc < 0) > return rc; > - ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sorry for the nitpick, but I'd like you to *not* remove this line. Thanks Ezequiel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html