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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Jiawen Wu <jiawenwu@trustnetic.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, mengyuanlou@net-swift.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 02/16] net: txgbe: Reset hardware
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 02:03:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yw/2u746uEk85S7u@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <025801d8bce5$0423b010$0c6b1030$@trustnetic.com>

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 10:54:40AM +0800, Jiawen Wu wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 31, 2022 8:39 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > n Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 03:04:40PM +0800, Jiawen Wu wrote:
> > >  /* struct txgbe_mac_operations */
> > > +static int txgbe_stop_adapter_dummy(struct txgbe_hw *TUP0) {
> > > +	return -EPERM;
> > 
> > This is a bit of an odd error code. -EOPNOTSUPP would be more normal.
> > 
> > I do wonder what all this dummy stuff is for...
> > 
> 
> Okay, I just think that this way I don't need to determine whether the
> function pointer is NULL every time it is called.

Have you seen many other driver doing this? I don't think i have. They
just check the pointer before calling thought it. You want your driver
to look just like every other Linux Ethernet driver.

   Andrew


  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-01  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-30  7:04 [PATCH net-next v2 00/16] net: WangXun txgbe ethernet driver Jiawen Wu
2022-08-30  7:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 01/16] net: txgbe: Store PCI info Jiawen Wu
2022-08-31  0:06   ` Andrew Lunn
2022-08-31  2:20     ` Jiawen Wu
2022-08-31 23:59       ` Andrew Lunn
2022-08-30  7:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 02/16] net: txgbe: Reset hardware Jiawen Wu
2022-08-31  0:39   ` Andrew Lunn
2022-08-31  2:54     ` Jiawen Wu
2022-09-01  0:03       ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2022-08-30  7:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 03/16] net: txgbe: Set MAC address and register netdev Jiawen Wu
2022-08-31  1:02   ` Andrew Lunn
2022-09-22  9:58     ` Jiawen Wu
2022-08-30  7:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 04/16] net: txgbe: Add operations to interact with firmware Jiawen Wu
2022-08-30  7:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 05/16] net: txgbe: Identify PHY and SFP module Jiawen Wu
2022-08-30  7:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 06/16] net: txgbe: Initialize service task Jiawen Wu
2022-08-30  7:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 07/16] net: txgbe: Support to setup link Jiawen Wu
2022-08-30  7:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 08/16] net: txgbe: Add interrupt support Jiawen Wu
2022-08-30  7:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 09/16] net: txgbe: Handle various event interrupts Jiawen Wu
2022-08-30  7:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 10/16] net: txgbe: Configure Rx and Tx unit of the MAC Jiawen Wu
2022-08-30  7:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 11/16] net: txgbe: Allocate Rx and Tx resources Jiawen Wu
2022-08-30 23:31   ` kernel test robot
2022-08-30  7:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 12/16] net: txgbe: Add Rx and Tx cleanup routine Jiawen Wu
2022-08-30  7:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 13/16] net: txgbe: Add device Rx features Jiawen Wu
2022-09-03 19:50   ` kernel test robot
2022-08-30  7:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 14/16] net: txgbe: Add transmit path to process packets Jiawen Wu
2022-08-30  7:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 15/16] net: txgbe: Support to get system network statistics Jiawen Wu
2022-08-30  7:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 16/16] net: txgbe: support to respond Tx hang Jiawen Wu

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