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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>
To: Alexander A Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia•com>
Cc: devel@driverdev•osuosl.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>,
	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki•fi>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips•org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net] staging: octeon: repair "fixed-link" support
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 22:45:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201017204534.GS456889@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201016101858.11374-1-alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>

> +			if (priv->of_node && of_phy_is_fixed_link(priv->of_node)) {
> +				if (of_phy_register_fixed_link(priv->of_node)) {
> +					netdev_err(dev, "Failed to register fixed link for interface %d, port %d\n",
> +						   interface, priv->port);
> +					dev->netdev_ops = NULL;
> +				}
> +			}
> +
>  			if (!dev->netdev_ops) {
>  				free_netdev(dev);

Setting dev->netdev_ops to NULL to indicate an error is pretty
odd. But this is staging. How about cleaning this
up. of_phy_register_fixed_link() returns an -errno which you should
return.

	Andrew

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-17 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-16 10:18 [PATCH v2 net] staging: octeon: repair "fixed-link" support Alexander A Sverdlin
2020-10-16 10:18 ` [PATCH v2 net] staging: octeon: Drop on uncorrectable alignment or FCS error Alexander A Sverdlin
2020-10-16 11:17   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-10-16 13:14   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-10-17 21:02   ` Andrew Lunn
2020-10-19  9:11     ` Alexander Sverdlin
2020-10-25  9:22   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-10-17 20:45 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2020-10-17 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 net] staging: octeon: repair "fixed-link" support Andrew Lunn

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