From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Maxim Korotkov <korotkov.maxim.s@gmail.com>
Cc: Rasesh Mody <rmody@marvell.com>,
GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>,
Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
lvc-project@linuxtesting.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bnx2: remove deadcode in bnx2_init_cpus()
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 22:57:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230309225710.78cd606c@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230309174231.3135-1-korotkov.maxim.s@gmail.com>
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 20:42:31 +0300 Maxim Korotkov wrote:
> The load_cpu_fw function has no error return code
> and always returns zero. Checking the value returned by
> this function does not make sense.
> As a result, bnx2_init_cpus() will also return only zero
> Therefore, it will be safe to change the type of functions
> to void and remove checking
True, but you need to tell the reader why you're making the change.
One of the impossible-to-hit error handling paths is missing unwind
or some such?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-10 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-09 17:42 [PATCH net-next] bnx2: remove deadcode in bnx2_init_cpus() Maxim Korotkov
2023-03-10 6:57 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-03-10 7:33 ` Maxim Korotkov
2023-03-10 7:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
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