On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 08:54:47AM +0100, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> + Kalle
>
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 at 19:51, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Ulf Hansson,
> >
> > The patch 2ac55d5e5ec9: "mmc: core: Re-work HW reset for SDIO cards"
> > from Oct 17, 2019, leads to the following static checker warning:
> >
> > drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c:1521 ath10k_sdio_hif_power_down()
> > warn: 'ret' can be either negative or positive
>
> Thanks for reporting!
>
> >
> > drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c
> > 1495 static void ath10k_sdio_hif_power_down(struct ath10k *ar)
> > 1496 {
> > 1497 struct ath10k_sdio *ar_sdio = ath10k_sdio_priv(ar);
> > 1498 int ret;
> > 1499
> > 1500 if (ar_sdio->is_disabled)
> > 1501 return;
> > 1502
> > 1503 ath10k_dbg(ar, ATH10K_DBG_BOOT, "sdio power off\n");
> > 1504
> > 1505 /* Disable the card */
> > 1506 sdio_claim_host(ar_sdio->func);
> > 1507
> > 1508 ret = sdio_disable_func(ar_sdio->func);
> > 1509 if (ret) {
> > 1510 ath10k_warn(ar, "unable to disable sdio function: %d\n", ret);
> > 1511 sdio_release_host(ar_sdio->func);
> > 1512 return;
> > 1513 }
> > 1514
> > 1515 ret = mmc_hw_reset(ar_sdio->func->card->host);
> > 1516 if (ret)
> >
> > It used to be that mmc_hw_reset() return negative error codes or zero
> > but now it returns 1 on certain success paths.
>
> Correct.
>
> I was actually looking into this while changing the behaviour of
> mmc_hw_reset(). However I decided to leave this as is.
>
> The main reason is, that mmc_hw_reset() is not going to power down the
> card. It's hard power cycle, so I am kind of surprised that is being
> used at all in this path. This in combination of expecting the value
> from mmc_hw_reset() to never be 1 here, seemed like a good idea to
> preserve the logging of the warning message.
>
> To silent the static checker tool from warning, we could check
> explicitly for "1". Is that something you want me to do?
I feel like checking for 1 would be more readable for humans as well.
Or we could just leave it as-is. I'm not likely to ever publish this
static checker warning.
regards,
dan carpenter
