From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org
Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v1] devlink: Make devlink_register to be void
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:15:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YUsedPzvmA9u3msV@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <311a6c7e74ad612474446890a12c9d310b9507ed.1632300324.git.leonro@nvidia.com>
Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 10:58:03AM CEST, leon at kernel.org wrote:
>From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
>
>devlink_register() can't fail and always returns success, but all drivers
>are obligated to check returned status anyway. This adds a lot of boilerplate
>code to handle impossible flow.
>
>Make devlink_register() void and simplify the drivers that use that
>API call.
>
>Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-22 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-22 8:58 [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v1] devlink: Make devlink_register to be void Leon Romanovsky
2021-09-22 12:01 ` Simon Horman
2021-09-22 12:05 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-09-22 12:15 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2021-09-22 13:20 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2021-09-22 13:22 ` Jakub Kicinski
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