From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
Cc: Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Samuel Zou <zou_wei@huawei.com>,
Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ethernet: update ret when ptp_clock is ERROR
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2020 07:07:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201107150702.GC9653@hoboy.vegasvil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fd46310f-0b4e-ac8b-b187-98438ee6bb60@ti.com>
On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 01:34:04PM +0200, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
> And ptp_clock_register() can return NULL only if PTP support is disabled.
Not true in general ...
> In which case, we should not even get here.
only because the Kconfig uses "depends on" instead of "implies"
PTP_1588_CLOCK.
> So, I'd propose to s/IS_ERR_OR_NULL/IS_ERR above,
> and just assign ret = PTR_ERR(cpts->ptp_clock) here.
No, please no -- don't make another bad example for people to
copy/paste.
Thanks,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-07 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-06 7:56 [PATCH] net/ethernet: update ret when ptp_clock is ERROR Wang Qing
2020-11-06 11:34 ` Grygorii Strashko
2020-11-06 12:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-11-06 12:58 ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-11-06 14:48 ` Grygorii Strashko
2020-11-07 15:07 ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2020-11-07 15:08 ` Richard Cochran
2020-11-11 13:03 ` Grygorii Strashko
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