Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: qlge: Add bool type to qlge_idc_wait()

From: Gilbert Adikankwu <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2023 08:39:34 +0100

On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 08:23:13AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2023, Gilbert Adikankwu wrote:
> 
> > Reported by checkpatch:
> >
> > WARNING: else is not generally useful after a break or return
> >
> > The idea of the break statements in the if/else is so that the loop is
> > exited immediately the value of status is changed. And returned
> > immediately. For if/else conditionals, the block to be executed will
> > always be one of the two. Introduce a bool type variable 's_sig' that
> > evaluates to true when the value of status is changed within the if/else
> > block.
> 
> The idea of the checkpatch warning is that eg
> 
> found = search();
> if (!found)
>   break;
> else do_something();
> 
> is equvalent to:
> 
> found = search();
> if (!found)
>   break;
> do_something();
> 
> Because now the normal computation is at top level and the if branches are
> only used for error handling.
> 
> But that is not the case in your code.  In your code, it seems that there
> are two cases where one would like to break out of the loop.  The code
> would be better left as it is.
> 
> julia

Thank you for the quick review. I thought about it the you described but
then realised the else was not redundant that was why I went the route
of trying to suppress the warning. I will revert the changes as you
have suggested

Gilbert
> 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gilbert Adikankwu <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge.h     | 1 +
> >  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_mpi.c | 8 ++++++--
> >  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge.h b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge.h
> > index d0dd659834ee..b846bca82571 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge.h
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge.h
> > @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/netdevice.h>
> >  #include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
> >  #include <linux/if_vlan.h>
> > +#include <linux/types.h>
> >
> >  /*
> >   * General definitions...
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_mpi.c b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_mpi.c
> > index 96a4de6d2b34..44cb879240a0 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_mpi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_mpi.c
> > @@ -909,6 +909,7 @@ int qlge_mb_wol_set_magic(struct qlge_adapter *qdev, u32 enable_wol)
> >  static int qlge_idc_wait(struct qlge_adapter *qdev)
> >  {
> >  	int status = -ETIMEDOUT;
> > +	bool s_sig = false;
> >  	struct mbox_params *mbcp = &qdev->idc_mbc;
> >  	long wait_time;
> >
> > @@ -934,14 +935,17 @@ static int qlge_idc_wait(struct qlge_adapter *qdev)
> >  		} else if (mbcp->mbox_out[0] == AEN_IDC_CMPLT) {
> >  			netif_err(qdev, drv, qdev->ndev, "IDC Success.\n");
> >  			status = 0;
> > -			break;
> > +			s_sig = true;
> >  		} else {
> >  			netif_err(qdev, drv, qdev->ndev,
> >  				  "IDC: Invalid State 0x%.04x.\n",
> >  				  mbcp->mbox_out[0]);
> >  			status = -EIO;
> > -			break;
> > +			s_sig = true;
> >  		}
> > +
> > +		if (s_sig)
> > +			break;
> >  	}
> >
> >  	return status;
> > --
> > 2.34.1
> >
> >
> >