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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@linux.dev>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: core: Remove the dup_errno parameter in dev_prep_valid_name()
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:48:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240618074840.536600bb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240618131743.2690-1-yajun.deng@linux.dev>

On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:17:43 +0800 Yajun Deng wrote:
> netdev_name_in_use() return -EEXIST makes more sense if it's not NULL.

netdev_name_in_use() returns bool.

> But dev_alloc_name() should keep the -ENFILE errno.

And it does.

I don't understand what problem you're trying to fix.
The code is fine as is.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-06-18 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-18 13:17 [PATCH net-next] net: core: Remove the dup_errno parameter in dev_prep_valid_name() Yajun Deng
2024-06-18 14:05 ` Jiri Pirko
2024-06-18 14:48 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2024-06-19  1:55   ` Yajun Deng

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