Re: [PATCH] xen/xenbus: Use 'void' instead of 'int' for the return of xenbus_switch_state()

From: David Vrabel
Date: Tue Sep 30 2014 - 05:55:34 EST


On 26/09/14 17:36, Chen Gang wrote:
> When xenbus_switch_state() fails, it will call xenbus_switch_fatal()
> internally, so need not return any status value, then use 'void' instead
> of 'int' for xenbus_switch_state() and __xenbus_switch_state().
>
> Also need be sure that all callers which check the return value must let
> 'err' be 0.
>
> And also need change the related comments for xenbus_switch_state().

Since this patch does not fix a bug and there is no unanimous agreement
on the API change I'm not going to apply it (nor the previous version).

David

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