Re: [PATCH v4 01/14] net: ionic: Create an auxiliary device for rdma driver

[Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>]

Le 06/08/2025 à 10:14, Abhijit Gangurde a écrit :
> 
> On 8/2/25 02:45, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
>> Le 23/07/2025 à 19:31, Abhijit Gangurde a écrit :
>>> To support RDMA capable ethernet device, create an auxiliary device in
>>> the ionic Ethernet driver. The RDMA device is modeled as an auxiliary
>>> device to the Ethernet device.
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> +static DEFINE_IDA(aux_ida);
>>> +
>>> +static void ionic_auxbus_release(struct device *dev)
>>> +{
>>> +    struct ionic_aux_dev *ionic_adev;
>>> +
>>> +    ionic_adev = container_of(dev, struct ionic_aux_dev, adev.dev);
>>> +    kfree(ionic_adev);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +int ionic_auxbus_register(struct ionic_lif *lif)
>>
>> The 2 places that uses thus function don't check its error code.
> 
> For the eth driver, RDMA functionality is optional hence return code was 
> missed. Although devlink parameter to control this is not included in 
> this series, where it needs return value from this function. Till that 
> point, I'll make it return void.

Don't bother with it.
If it is planned to be used later, I think it is fine to leave it as-is. 
This will save you some work.

Just ignore my comment.

CJ