Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] net: hisilicon: fix the return value handle and remove redundant netdev_err() for platform_get_irq()

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 14:43:47 -0700

On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:38:58 +0800 Ruan Jinjie wrote:
> There is no possible for platform_get_irq() to return 0
> and the return value of platform_get_irq() is more sensible
> to show the error reason.
> 
> And there is no need to call the netdev_err() function directly to print
> a custom message when handling an error from platform_get_irq() function as
> it is going to display an appropriate error message in case of a failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ruan Jinjie <[email-masked]>

Dan, with the sample of one patch from you I just applied I induce 
that treating 0 as error and returning a -EINVAL in that case may 
be preferable here?

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c
> index 50c3f5d6611f..ecf92a5d56bb 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c
> @@ -960,8 +960,8 @@ static int hip04_mac_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	}
>  
>  	irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> -	if (irq <= 0) {
> -		ret = -EINVAL;
> +	if (irq < 0) {
> +		ret = irq;
>  		goto init_fail;
>  	}
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hisi_femac.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hisi_femac.c
> index ce2571c16e43..cb7b0293fe85 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hisi_femac.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hisi_femac.c
> @@ -862,8 +862,8 @@ static int hisi_femac_drv_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  		goto out_disconnect_phy;
>  
>  	ndev->irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> -	if (ndev->irq <= 0) {
> -		ret = -ENODEV;
> +	if (ndev->irq < 0) {
> +		ret = ndev->irq;
>  		goto out_disconnect_phy;
>  	}
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hix5hd2_gmac.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hix5hd2_gmac.c
> index f867e9531117..26d22bb04b87 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hix5hd2_gmac.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hix5hd2_gmac.c
> @@ -1206,9 +1206,8 @@ static int hix5hd2_dev_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	}
>  
>  	ndev->irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> -	if (ndev->irq <= 0) {
> -		netdev_err(ndev, "No irq resource\n");
> -		ret = -EINVAL;
> +	if (ndev->irq < 0) {
> +		ret = ndev->irq;
>  		goto out_phy_node;
>  	}
>