From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-wr1-f45.google.com (mail-wr1-f45.google.com [209.85.221.45]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CDFC03FC8 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2021 12:15:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wr1-f45.google.com with SMTP id t8so6191637wrq.4 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2021 05:15:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=resnulli-us.20210112.gappssmtp.com; s=20210112; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:in-reply-to; bh=Pa+fl9Rsega8suhbx2cwWWJOokOEYcTuSXNs1BTWnJU=; b=cJ/kSg2kCbV/XSyL2FhCOA/bzv02g/NCMYSAF6UpI9bCXs0COpTXzSiBWtyi2D4fVp NwZ4fZpXSbOyRTPVbHPUFRDvZin9TNrPa+wI1n5IbPcERRXoVQ6F6AQ72ymmaiP5Ai2r +wkKQFgbcUxTP+ODLR+vqUuciFIJYm+6gNl4GP4wTnt+yCrlCHtJdypBNOjRoFZU283d mvJANPj+dAZ1qauLVbTyhKzighKwgFIZclr3S+pJgnea3OJ02f2b2Iz32gslIrBorvKS Z2Se8zpwT0QiFRaHQzBGz2a3uQ0VG/6uDNlUygJT5sHEwffe+tQl9+X86Zfhg87idCue 3b7Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-disposition:in-reply-to; bh=Pa+fl9Rsega8suhbx2cwWWJOokOEYcTuSXNs1BTWnJU=; b=XDWmhEJ5ZUgbM9PE56GgriRfUEy4z6LlQJeHIRRPszdeLiWHJrcFY2cbbcwHsI/YDV 5y52XOWGYsukdvysbAyxHKQNPCegiCuSobBdWYrlNOcxibiY24v5zrUXponSYU9lcj/t GNtfjQ6aBwrGgp7TxJswJXoqS37jd5//fl1umQRfLiUBm1/OWrD/bJSyysxIudmQsZsE 8mbZtf1Ttx6/OVyUjH+w9r+Y9Dr0qz6lVj1cE1WsXOim6tIgDjM5IGuea5L9NfelFSov nTE1HifPQrJDq8fhEhZBPRB1WDXcxuIP5PQ73mt5wOa0FXQ6vM7Cbhb2mZg19nsEOXQB bKHQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532t542S487YfFIR5S+kDnaeP77WBmMsSUSqBXZVq7WZ3o3P4PFt 4vffkp2vbENRU6yC48OPK7RjIA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzCZMzjCAO3TxbrSgQDj+5uKJEPtELabH+RXmVdZfiHM6v4eHIkMHhrowjuyXTI3sw5YUsdig== X-Received: by 2002:a05:600c:35d0:: with SMTP id r16mr9995852wmq.26.1632312949996; Wed, 22 Sep 2021 05:15:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([85.163.43.78]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n68sm5849702wmn.13.2021.09.22.05.15.49 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 22 Sep 2021 05:15:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:15:48 +0200 From: Jiri Pirko To: Leon Romanovsky Cc: "David S . Miller" , Jakub Kicinski , Leon Romanovsky , Alexandre Belloni , Andrew Lunn , Ariel Elior , Bin Luo , Claudiu Manoil , Coiby Xu , Derek Chickles , drivers@pensando.io, Felix Manlunas , Florian Fainelli , Geetha sowjanya , Greg Kroah-Hartman , GR-everest-linux-l2@marvell.com, GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com, hariprasad , Ido Schimmel , Intel Corporation , intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, Ioana Ciornei , Jerin Jacob , Jesse Brandeburg , Jiri Pirko , Jonathan Lemon , Linu Cherian , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, Loic Poulain , Manish Chopra , M Chetan Kumar , Michael Chan , netdev@vger.kernel.org, oss-drivers@corigine.com, Richard Cochran , Saeed Mahameed , Salil Mehta , Satanand Burla , Sergey Ryazanov , Shannon Nelson , Simon Horman , Subbaraya Sundeep , Sunil Goutham , Taras Chornyi , Tariq Toukan , Tony Nguyen , UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com, Vadym Kochan , Vivien Didelot , Vladimir Oltean , Yisen Zhuang Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1] devlink: Make devlink_register to be void Message-ID: References: <311a6c7e74ad612474446890a12c9d310b9507ed.1632300324.git.leonro@nvidia.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <311a6c7e74ad612474446890a12c9d310b9507ed.1632300324.git.leonro@nvidia.com> Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 10:58:03AM CEST, leon@kernel.org wrote: >From: Leon Romanovsky > >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 Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko