On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 14:41 -0700, akpm@xxxxxxxx wrote: > + if (!err) > + err = length; We have more than one of these cases; we might as well accommodate them all at the bottom of the routine, like the attached James diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_proc.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_proc.c index 07be62b..55200e4 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_proc.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_proc.c @@ -266,8 +266,6 @@ static ssize_t proc_scsi_write(struct fi lun = simple_strtoul(p + 1, &p, 0); err = scsi_add_single_device(host, channel, id, lun); - if (err >= 0) - err = length; /* * Usage: echo "scsi remove-single-device 0 1 2 3" >/proc/scsi/scsi @@ -284,6 +282,13 @@ static ssize_t proc_scsi_write(struct fi err = scsi_remove_single_device(host, channel, id, lun); } + /* + * convert success returns so that we return the + * number of bytes consumed. + */ + if (!err) + err = length; + out: free_page((unsigned long)buffer); return err; - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html