On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:59 AM Suganath Prabu <suganath-prabu.subramani@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > No functional changes. This section of code > "wait for IOC to be operational" is used in many places > across the driver, and hence moved this code in to > a function "mpt3sas_wait_for_ioc_to_operational()" > + ioc_state = mpt3sas_base_get_iocstate(ioc, 1); > + while (ioc_state != MPI2_IOC_STATE_OPERATIONAL) { > + Do we need this blank line? > + if (wait_state_count++ == timeout) { > + ioc_err(ioc, "%s: failed due to ioc not operational\n", > + __func__); > + return -EFAULT; > + } > + ssleep(1); > + ioc_state = mpt3sas_base_get_iocstate(ioc, 1); > + ioc_info(ioc, "%s: waiting for operational state(count=%d)\n", > + __func__, wait_state_count); > + } I understand this is part of existing code, but can you consider to modify it to something like do { ioc_state = mpt3sas_base_get_iocstate(ioc, 1); if (ioc_state == MPI2_IOC_STATE_OPERATIONAL) break; ioc_info(ioc, "%s: waiting for operational state(count=%d)\n", __func__, ++wait_state_count); while (timeout--); if (!timeout) { ioc_err(ioc, "%s: failed due to ioc not operational\n", __func__); return -EFAULT; } Less lines, more understandable in my view. > + rc = mpt3sas_wait_for_ioc_to_operational(ioc, > + IOC_OPERATIONAL_WAIT_COUNT); This can be one line (yes, I aware that is 82 characters, but it improves readability from my p.o.v.). > + rc = mpt3sas_wait_for_ioc_to_operational(ioc, > + IOC_OPERATIONAL_WAIT_COUNT); Ditto. > u16 smid; > - u32 ioc_state; > Mpi2ConfigRequest_t *config_request; > int r; > u8 retry_count, issue_host_reset = 0; > - u16 wait_state_count; > + Usually we don't split definition block. > struct config_request mem; > u32 ioc_status = UINT_MAX; > + ret = mpt3sas_wait_for_ioc_to_operational(ioc, > + IOC_OPERATIONAL_WAIT_COUNT); One line? > + rc = mpt3sas_wait_for_ioc_to_operational(ioc, > + IOC_OPERATIONAL_WAIT_COUNT); Ditto. > + rc = mpt3sas_wait_for_ioc_to_operational(ioc, > + IOC_OPERATIONAL_WAIT_COUNT); Ditto. > + rc = mpt3sas_wait_for_ioc_to_operational(ioc, > + IOC_OPERATIONAL_WAIT_COUNT); Ditto. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko