Re: [REPOST Patch v1 2/3] power: power_supply: Add core support for supplied_from

On 03/25/2013 08:24 PM, Rhyland Klein wrote:

This patch adds support for supplies to register a list of char *'s
which represent the list of supplies which supply them. This is the
opposite as the supplied_to list.

This change maintains support for supplied_to until all drivers which
make use of it already are converted.

+static int __power_supply_is_supplied_by(struct power_supply *supplier,
+					 struct power_supply *supply)

Shouldn't this function return a Boolean since it's "is" something? At
least, 1 for yes 0 for no would be more comprehensible than 0 for yes
and error for no?

+{
+	int i;
+
+	if (!supply->supplied_from && !supplier->supplied_to)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/* Support both supplied_to and supplied_from modes */
+	if (supply->supplied_from) {
+		for (i = 0; i < supply->num_supplies; i++) {
+			if (!supplier->name)
+				continue;

That test is loop invariant. Why put it inside the loop?

Why wouldn't a supply have a name? The loop in
__power_supply_changed_work() that this function replaces doesn't test
for NULL names.

+			if (!strcmp(supplier->name, supply->supplied_from[i]))
+				return 0;

Don't you want to return something true here, so that the if block
inside __power_supply_changed_work() is executed in this case?

Similar comment for the else block.

 static int __power_supply_changed_work(struct device *dev, void *data)

-	for (i = 0; i < psy->num_supplicants; i++)
-		if (!strcmp(psy->supplied_to[i], pst->name)) {
-			if (pst->external_power_changed)
-				pst->external_power_changed(pst);
-		}
+	if (__power_supply_is_supplied_by(psy, pst)) {
+		if (pst->external_power_changed)
+			pst->external_power_changed(pst);
+	}
+
 	return 0;
 }