On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 12:16:49PM +0530, Himadri Pandya wrote: > The new usb_control_msg_recv() and usb_control_msg_send() nicely wraps > usb_control_msg() with proper error check. Hence use the wrappers > instead of calling usb_control_msg() directly. > > Signed-off-by: Himadri Pandya <himadrispandya@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/usb/serial/ark3116.c | 29 ++++------------------------- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/ark3116.c b/drivers/usb/serial/ark3116.c > index 71a9206ea1e2..51302892c779 100644 > --- a/drivers/usb/serial/ark3116.c > +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ark3116.c > @@ -77,38 +77,17 @@ struct ark3116_private { > static int ark3116_write_reg(struct usb_serial *serial, > unsigned reg, __u8 val) > { > - int result; > /* 0xfe 0x40 are magic values taken from original driver */ > - result = usb_control_msg(serial->dev, > - usb_sndctrlpipe(serial->dev, 0), > - 0xfe, 0x40, val, reg, > - NULL, 0, ARK_TIMEOUT); > - if (result) > - return result; > - > - return 0; > + return usb_control_msg_send(serial->dev, 0, 0xfe, 0x40, val, reg, NULL, 0, > + ARK_TIMEOUT, GFP_KERNEL); For control transfers without a data stage there's no point in using usb_control_msg_send() as it already returns a negative errno on error or 0 on success. > } > > static int ark3116_read_reg(struct usb_serial *serial, > unsigned reg, unsigned char *buf) > { > - int result; > /* 0xfe 0xc0 are magic values taken from original driver */ > - result = usb_control_msg(serial->dev, > - usb_rcvctrlpipe(serial->dev, 0), > - 0xfe, 0xc0, 0, reg, > - buf, 1, ARK_TIMEOUT); > - if (result < 1) { > - dev_err(&serial->interface->dev, > - "failed to read register %u: %d\n", > - reg, result); > - if (result >= 0) > - result = -EIO; > - > - return result; > - } > - > - return 0; > + return usb_control_msg_recv(serial->dev, 0, 0xfe, 0xc0, 0, reg, buf, 1, > + ARK_TIMEOUT, GFP_KERNEL); This driver already use a DMA-able transfer buffer which is allocated once and then passed to this helper repeatedly. This change would introduce additional redandant memdup + memcpy for every call and for no real gain. You also have an unrelated change here as you simply remove an existing error message. Please drop this patch. Johan