😊 definitely simpler ! -----Original Message----- From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2020 12:17 PM To: Zhao, Haifeng <haifeng.zhao@xxxxxxxxx>; bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx; oohall@xxxxxxxxx; ruscur@xxxxxxxxxx; lukas@xxxxxxxxx; andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; stuart.w.hayes@xxxxxxxxx; mr.nuke.me@xxxxxxxxx; mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Jia, Pei P <pei.p.jia@xxxxxxxxx>; ashok.raj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5 V2] PCI: only return true when dev io state is really changed On Sat, 2020-09-26 at 23:28 -0400, Ethan Zhao wrote: > simplify the pci_dev_set_io_state() function to only return true when > dev->error_state is changed. [] > diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.h b/drivers/pci/pci.h [] > @@ -362,35 +362,11 @@ static inline bool pci_dev_set_io_state(struct pci_dev *dev, > bool changed = false; [] > + if (dev->error_state == new) > + return changed; > + > + dev->error_state = new; > + changed = true; > return changed; > } This would be simpler removing the unnecessary changed automatic ... if (dev->error_state == new) return false; dev->error_state = new; return true; }