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Date:      Sat, 22 Feb 2003 00:57:01 +0100
From:      Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_xl.c
Message-ID:  <20030221235701.GS60813@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0302211523570.54211-100000@root.org>
References:  <20030221222315.GR60813@elvis.mu.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0302211523570.54211-100000@root.org>

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Nate Lawson wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> > Maxime Henrion wrote:
> > These patches look mostly fine (I only looked at the busdma drivers).  I
> > saw two minor nits though.  You're using "if (error != 0)", I personally
> > prefer "if (error)" (I don't know if style(9) says something for this),
> > but what's more important is that it makes style inconsistent in those
> > drivers where the latter is used everywhere else.
> 
> I did it because of this example and the warning against "!error".
>              error = function(a1, a2);
>              if (error != 0)
>                      exit(error);
> 
> But I don't care either way -- I try to stick to the original style when
> possible (i.e. the xl changes do not remove the goto tree even though I
> don't like that style).

Then let's follow the existing style in those drivers.

> > Also, there's an unreachable bus_teardown_intr() call in the xl(4) diff.
> > It should be just removed since with your patches, the interrupt is the
> > last thing allocated in the xl_init() function and thus we never need to
> > deallocate it there.
> 
> I actually did that on purpose to handle future reordering if it
> happens.  I think it's an advantage to have the resource cleanup be
> (mostly) independent of the order it was allocated in.  In fact, with
> a little more work, the attach error case and the detach case could be
> unified.

Fair enough.  It would be nice to add a comment explaining this then so
that people don't wonder about it.  Also, telling it to lint with a
/* UNREACH */ or something might make sense.

Why aren't you doing it in every driver?

Cheers,
Maxime

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