On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 02:05:46AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: > ... for single items being collected: It is more typesafe (as the > compiler can check format string and to-be-written-to variable match) > and requires one less parameter to be passed. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]> > --- > drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 43 > +++++++++++++++++++------------------------ > 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) > > --- 4.7-rc6-prefer-xenbus_scanf.orig/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c > +++ 4.7-rc6-prefer-xenbus_scanf/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c > @@ -2208,10 +2208,9 @@ static void blkfront_setup_discard(struc > info->discard_granularity = discard_granularity; > info->discard_alignment = discard_alignment; > } > - err = xenbus_gather(XBT_NIL, info->xbdev->otherend, > - "discard-secure", "%d", &discard_secure, > - NULL); > - if (!err) > + err = xenbus_scanf(XBT_NIL, info->xbdev->otherend, > + "discard-secure", "%u", &discard_secure); > + if (err > 0) I would prefer an explicit err == 1 check (here and elsewhere), but I'm not going to block this patch because of that. Roger.

