[PATCH 8/8] staging: rtl8712: remove inapplicable comment

James A. Shackleford shack at linux.com
Wed Jul 9 17:01:22 UTC 2014


On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 01:16:53PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:52:41PM -0400, James A Shackleford wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: James A Shackleford <shack at linux.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/rtl8712/osdep_service.h |    5 -----
> >  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/osdep_service.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/osdep_service.h
> > index 77b1443..3dfc473 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/osdep_service.h
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/osdep_service.h
> > @@ -95,11 +95,6 @@ static inline void _set_workitem(_workitem *pwork)
> >  	#define BIT(x)	(1 << (x))
> >  #endif
> >  
> > -/*
> > -For the following list_xxx operations,
> > -caller must guarantee the atomic context.
> > -Otherwise, there will be racing condition.
> > -*/
> >  static inline u32 _down_sema(struct semaphore *sema)
> >  {
> >  	if (down_interruptible(sema))
> 
> This function sucks obviously just like the wrappers you deleted earlier.
> 
> Only one of the callers checks the return value.
> 
> TODO-list: 2014-07-08: rtl8712: delete _down_sema().
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 

I completely agree -- most of the stuff in this header is pretty ugly.  More
clean-up patches are in the pipe.

Regards,
James Shackleford


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