On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 06:12:09PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pali Rohár [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2017 1:09 PM
> > To: Limonciello, Mario <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]; Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>;
> > LKML <[email protected]>; [email protected]; 
> > Andy
> > Lutomirski <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected];
> > [email protected]; [email protected]; Greg KH <[email protected]>; Alan Cox
> > <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 11/15] platform/x86: dell-smbios-smm: test for WSMT
> > 
> > On Thursday 19 October 2017 12:50:14 Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > > +/* When enabled this indicates that SMM won't work */
> > > +static bool test_wsmt_enabled(void)
> > > +{
> > > + struct calling_interface_token *token;
> > > +
> > > + /* if token doesn't exist, SMM will work */
> > > + token = dell_smbios_find_token(WSMT_EN_TOKEN);
> > > + if (!token)
> > > +         return false;
> > > +
> > > + /* if token exists, try to access over SMM */
> > > + buffer->class = CLASS_TOKEN_READ;
> > > + buffer->select = SELECT_TOKEN_STD;
> > > + memset(buffer, 0, sizeof(struct calling_interface_buffer));
> > > + buffer->input[0] = token->location;
> > > + dell_smbios_smm_call(buffer);
> > > +
> > > + /* if lookup failed, we know WSMT was enabled */
> > > + if (buffer->output[0] != 0)
> > > +         return true;
> > > +
> > > + /* query token status if it didn't fail */
> > > + return (buffer->output[1] == token->value);
> > > +}
> > > +
> > >  static int __init dell_smbios_smm_init(void)
> > >  {
> > >   int ret;
> > > @@ -115,6 +140,13 @@ static int __init dell_smbios_smm_init(void)
> > >
> > >   dmi_walk(find_cmd_address, NULL);
> > >
> > > + ret = test_wsmt_enabled();
> > 
> > ret is int, but test_wsmt_enabled() returns bool.
> 
> Yes, ret is re-used within this method.
> 0, 1 enum is a subset of int, so this seemed like a logical thing to me to do.

Agreed, the conversion is automatic and he tests for it and returns an
appropriate error code. I don't see a real problem with this.

-- 
Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center

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