[PATCH v3 03/10] mtd: powernv_flash: Don't treat OPAL_SUCCESS as an error
Balbir Singh
bsingharora at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 18:50:22 AEST 2017
On Wed, 2017-07-12 at 14:22 +1000, Cyril Bur wrote:
> While this driver expects to interact asynchronously, OPAL is well
> within its rights to return OPAL_SUCCESS to indicate that the operation
> completed without the need for a callback. We shouldn't treat
> OPAL_SUCCESS as an error rather we should wrap up and return promptly to
> the caller.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur at gmail.com>
> ---
> I'll note here that currently no OPAL exists that will return
> OPAL_SUCCESS so there isn't the possibility of a bug today.
It would help if you mentioned OPAL_SUCCESS to the async call. So effectively
what we expected to be an asynchronous call with callback, but OPAL returned
immediately with success.
Balbir Singh.
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