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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bridge: vlan: check for errors from __vlan_del in __vlan_flush
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 15:52:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220214155205.22135ebb@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220214233646.1592855-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>

On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 01:36:46 +0200
Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> wrote:

> +		if (err) {
> +			br_err(br,
> +			       "port %u(%s) failed to delete vlan %d: %pe\n",
> +			       (unsigned int) p->port_no, p->dev->name,
> +			       vlan->vid, ERR_PTR(err));

Don't understand this last argument here.
It takes an integer error number, then converts it to an error pointer
just so the error message can then decode with %pe? Why?


  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-14 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-14 23:36 [PATCH net-next] net: bridge: vlan: check for errors from __vlan_del in __vlan_flush Vladimir Oltean
2022-02-14 23:52 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2022-02-14 23:58   ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-02-15 14:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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