Re: [PATCH net-next] devlink: Make devlink_register to be void

Jiri Pirko
2021-09-21T07:02:29Z

Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 10:39:15PM CEST, kuba@kernel.org wrote:
>On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:41:44 +0300 Leon Romanovsky 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.
>
>Unlike unused functions bringing back error handling may be
>non-trivial. I'd rather you deferred such cleanups until you're
>ready to post your full rework and therefore give us some confidence
>the revert will not be needed.

Well, that was the original reason why I made it to return int, so the
drivers are prepared. But truth is that given the time this is on and
the need to return int never really materialized, I tend to ack with the
cleanup.