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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1] devlink: Make devlink_register to be void
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 06:22:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210922062246.26e38305@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <311a6c7e74ad612474446890a12c9d310b9507ed.1632300324.git.leonro@nvidia.com>
On Wed, 22 Sep 2021 11:58:03 +0300 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
>
> devlink_register() can't fail and always returns success, but all drivers
> are obligated to check returned status anyway. This adds a lot of boilerplate
> code to handle impossible flow.
>
> Make devlink_register() void and simplify the drivers that use that
> API call.
>
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-22 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-22 8:58 [PATCH net-next v1] devlink: Make devlink_register to be void Leon Romanovsky
2021-09-22 12:01 ` Simon Horman
2021-09-22 12:05 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-09-22 12:15 ` Jiri Pirko
2021-09-22 13:20 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2021-09-22 13:22 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
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