Re: [PATCH 3/3] hw/cxl/cxl-cdat: Make cxl_doe_cdat_init() return boolean

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 18/4/24 12:04, Zhao Liu wrote:
> From: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
> 
> As error.h suggested, the best practice for callee is to return
> something to indicate success / failure.
> 
> With returned boolean, there's no need to dereference @errp to check
> failure case.
> 
> Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
> ---
>   hw/cxl/cxl-cdat.c              | 6 +++---
>   hw/mem/cxl_type3.c             | 3 +--
>   hw/pci-bridge/cxl_upstream.c   | 3 +--
>   include/hw/cxl/cxl_component.h | 2 +-
>   4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)


> diff --git a/include/hw/cxl/cxl_component.h b/include/hw/cxl/cxl_component.h
> index 5012fab6f763..945ee6ffd045 100644
> --- a/include/hw/cxl/cxl_component.h
> +++ b/include/hw/cxl/cxl_component.h
> @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ hwaddr cxl_decode_ig(int ig);
>   CXLComponentState *cxl_get_hb_cstate(PCIHostState *hb);
>   bool cxl_get_hb_passthrough(PCIHostState *hb);
>   
> -void cxl_doe_cdat_init(CXLComponentState *cxl_cstate, Error **errp);
> +bool cxl_doe_cdat_init(CXLComponentState *cxl_cstate, Error **errp);
>   void cxl_doe_cdat_release(CXLComponentState *cxl_cstate);
>   void cxl_doe_cdat_update(CXLComponentState *cxl_cstate, Error **errp);

Another candidate ;)