From: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Loktionov,
Aleksandr" <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Martin Liska <mliska@suse.cz>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] i40e (gcc13): synchronize allocate/free functions return type & values
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 09:51:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9942e904-6f96-5ff5-34d6-7756add65c0a@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5fb6ba13-3300-917a-4e7b-e8b7a1e71e45@kernel.org>
On 12/12/2022 3:55 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 04. 11. 22, 21:28, Tony Nguyen wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11/4/2022 11:47 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>>> On Fri, 4 Nov 2022 11:33:07 -0700 Tony Nguyen wrote:
>>>> As Jiri mentioned, this is propagated up throughout the driver. We
>>>> could
>>>> change this function to return int but all the callers would then need
>>>> to convert these errors to i40e_status to propagate. This doesn't
>>>> really
>>>> gain much other than having this function return int. To adjust the
>>>> entire call chain is going to take more work. As this is resolving a
>>>> valid warning and returning what is currently expected, what are your
>>>> thoughts on taking this now to resolve the issue and our i40e team will
>>>> take the work on to convert the functions to use the standard errnos?
>>>
>>> My thoughts on your OS abstraction layers should be pretty evident.
>>> If anything I'd like to be more vigilant about less flagrant cases.
>>>
>>> I don't think this is particularly difficult, let's patch it up
>>> best we can without letting the "status" usage grow.
>>
>> Ok thanks will do.
>
> Just heads-up: have you managed to remove the abstraction yet?
Hi Jiri,
It's being worked on:
https://lore.kernel.org/intel-wired-lan/20221207144800.1257060-1-jan.sokolowski@intel.com/
Thanks,
Tony
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-31 11:44 [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] i40e (gcc13): synchronize allocate/free functions return type & values Jiri Slaby (SUSE)
2022-11-03 3:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-11-03 12:03 ` Jiri Slaby
2022-11-04 18:33 ` Tony Nguyen
2022-11-04 18:47 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-11-04 20:28 ` Tony Nguyen
2022-12-12 11:55 ` Jiri Slaby
2022-12-12 17:51 ` Tony Nguyen [this message]
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