[PATCH] drm/rcar-du: fix comment to rcar_du_group_get()

Kieran Bingham kieran.bingham+renesas at ideasonboard.com
Mon Sep 4 12:57:29 UTC 2023


Quoting Kieran Bingham (2023-09-03 16:23:46)
> Hi Alexandra
> 
> Quoting Alexandra Diupina (2023-09-03 14:37:09)
> > rcar_du_group_get() never returns a negative
> > error code (always returns 0), so change
> > the comment about returned value
> 
> If so, then perhaps this may as well become a void return and remove the
> return 0.
> 
> That could then clean up some redundant error path handling in
> drivers/gpu/drm/renesas/rcar-du/rcar_du_crtc.c too ?
> 
> Still, this does correct the documentation to match the implementation
> as it stands so... for that ...
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas at ideasonboard.com>

Reading Geert's reply here, I'll retract this RB tag, and instead agree
that the emphasis should either be on a full clean up - or that this
does document the intent that if there is an error it will be returned.

--
Kieran


> 
> But removing an unused error path seems like a worthy clean up
> opportunity too.
> 
> > 
> > Fixes: cb2025d2509f ("drm/rcar-du: Introduce CRTCs groups")
> 
> Hrm ... well the documented behaviour was the same even before this
> commit in rcar_du_get(), so perhaps it was documenting the intent... But
> it does seem that the return code has been redundant for quite some time
> so perhaps it's just not required.
> 
> 
> --
> Kieran
> 
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexandra Diupina <adiupina at astralinux.ru>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/renesas/rcar-du/rcar_du_group.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/renesas/rcar-du/rcar_du_group.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/renesas/rcar-du/rcar_du_group.c
> > index 2ccd2581f544..499d4e56c32d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/renesas/rcar-du/rcar_du_group.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/renesas/rcar-du/rcar_du_group.c
> > @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void rcar_du_group_setup(struct rcar_du_group *rgrp)
> >   *
> >   * This function must be called with the DRM mode_config lock held.
> >   *
> > - * Return 0 in case of success or a negative error code otherwise.
> > + * Always return 0.
> >   */
> >  int rcar_du_group_get(struct rcar_du_group *rgrp)
> >  {
> > -- 
> > 2.30.2
> >


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