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Re: [PATCH] staging: brcm80211: return false if not a broadcom board

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On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 06:36:16PM -0700, Henry Ptasinski wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 03:25:09PM -0700, Greg Dietsche wrote:
> > This code looks wrong to me. I think it meant to return false
> > if the board's vendor id isn't Broadcom's.
> > 
> > Compile tested only.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Dietsche <Gregory.Dietsche@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wlc_bmac.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wlc_bmac.c b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wlc_bmac.c
> > index 4534926..ee13238 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wlc_bmac.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wlc_bmac.c
> > @@ -1943,7 +1943,7 @@ static bool wlc_validboardtype(struct wlc_hw_info *wlc_hw)
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	if (wlc_hw->sih->boardvendor != PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROADCOM)
> > -		return goodboard;
> > +		goodboard = false; 
> >  
> >  	return goodboard;
> >  }
> 
> Actually, the original code is correct.
> 
> For boards with the Broadcom ID, this function checks that the boardrev is
> sane. Dev boards that aren't properly configured may have invalid info, so this
> check is mainly to catch that problem.
> 
> For boards with any other vendor, we don't have any sanity checks that we know
> should be done, so the board info is always considered good.
>

Sounds like it should be "goodboard = true;" then.

regards,
dan carpenter

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