Re: [PATCH] [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: change error handling to use standard errno

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 08:29:50AM +0100, Omer El Idrissi wrote:
> Replace non-standard return values with descriptive
> linux kernel error codes in probe path.
> Also replace the variable name 'status' with 'ret'
> to be more consistent with other kernel code
> 
> Signed-off-by: Omer El Idrissi <omer.e.idrissi@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.c | 30 +++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.c
> index d664e254912c..ff0ebcb59c68 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.c
> @@ -345,38 +345,46 @@ static int rtw_drv_init(
>  	struct sdio_func *func,
>  	const struct sdio_device_id *id)
>  {
> -	int status = _FAIL;
> +	int ret;
>  	struct adapter *if1 = NULL;
>  	struct dvobj_priv *dvobj;
>  
>  	dvobj = sdio_dvobj_init(func);
> -	if (!dvobj)
> +	if (!dvobj) {
> +		ret = -ENOMEM;

why is this an "out of memory" error?

thanks,

greg k-h