[PATCH RFC] drm/i2c: tda998x: dead-code or unhandled error condition ?

Jean-Francois Moine moinejf at free.fr
Tue Jul 28 01:25:26 PDT 2015


On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 14:58:48 +0200
Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat at osadl.org> wrote:

> event API conformance testing with coccinelle spatches are being
> used to locate API usage inconsistencies this triggert with:
> ./drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c:1062
>         incorrect check for negative return
> 
> The return of wait_event_timeout is always >= 0, thus the negative 
> check was effectively being ignoring - as the timeout will be checked
> a few lines below the error condition being checked here seems to be
> wrong or this is simply dead code which would be my guess as the
> timeout condition check covers the wait-queue related failure condition.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat at osadl.org>

Acked-by: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf at free.fr>

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