Re: [PATCH 4/11] via-ircc: Remove useless return variables

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Sun Jun 01 2014 - 09:35:34 EST


On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 01:42:30PM +0200, walter harms wrote:
> >> static int via_ircc_read_dongle_id(int iobase)
> >> -{
> >> - int dongle_id = 9; /* Default to IBM */
> >> -
> >> +{/* Default to IBM */
> >
> > Yuck. And anyway, the comment should be on return line. (And of course
> > there should have been a #define IBM_DONGLE_ID 9, but that's probably
> > something for another patch.
> >
> >> IRDA_ERROR("via-ircc: dongle probing not supported, please specify dongle_id module parameter.\n");
> >> - return dongle_id;
> >> + return 9;
>
>
> more over code and error msg do not fit,
> it returns a default of 9 (what ever that means) it does not look like
> an error. Sow the warning should be
>
> via-ircc: dongle probing not supported, please specify dongle_id module parameter. settting dongle_id=9
>

The print is ok. It's called like this:

328 /* Check if user has supplied the dongle id or not */
329 if (!dongle_id)
330 dongle_id = via_ircc_read_dongle_id(self->io.fir_base);
331 self->io.dongle_id = dongle_id;

If you don't use a module id then it acts like an IBM dongle by default.

regards,
dan carpenter

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