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From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, bjorn.andersson@linaro.org,
	evgreen@chromium.org, cpratapa@codeaurora.org,
	subashab@codeaurora.org, elder@kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/7] net: ipa: ipa_stop() does not return an error
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:26:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YHP2IKZ7pB+l4a6O@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e0c08a0-aebd-83b2-26b5-98f7d46d6b2b@linaro.org>

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 08:42:15AM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> On 4/11/21 8:28 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> >> I think *not* checking an available return value is questionable
> >> practice.  I'd really rather have a build option for a
> >> "__need_not_check" tag and have "must_check" be the default.
> > __need_not_check == void ???
> 
> I'm not sure I understand your statement here, but...

We are talking about the same thing. My point was that __need_not_check
is actually void. The API author was supposed to declare that by
declaring that function doesn't return anything.

Thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-12  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-09 18:07 [PATCH net-next 0/7] net: ipa: a few small fixes Alex Elder
2021-04-09 18:07 ` [PATCH net-next 1/7] net: ipa: relax pool entry size requirement Alex Elder
2021-04-09 18:07 ` [PATCH net-next 2/7] net: ipa: update sequence type for modem TX endpoint Alex Elder
2021-04-09 18:07 ` [PATCH net-next 3/7] net: ipa: only set endpoint netdev pointer when in use Alex Elder
2021-04-09 18:07 ` [PATCH net-next 4/7] net: ipa: ipa_stop() does not return an error Alex Elder
2021-04-11  6:34   ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-11 13:09     ` Alex Elder
2021-04-11 13:28       ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-11 13:42         ` Alex Elder
2021-04-12  7:26           ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2021-04-12  7:45             ` Alex Elder
2021-04-09 18:07 ` [PATCH net-next 5/7] net: ipa: get rid of empty IPA functions Alex Elder
2021-04-09 18:07 ` [PATCH net-next 6/7] net: ipa: get rid of empty GSI functions Alex Elder
2021-04-09 18:07 ` [PATCH net-next 7/7] net: ipa: three small fixes Alex Elder
2021-04-10  4:11 ` [PATCH net-next 0/7] net: ipa: a few " patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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