Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: ethernet: adi: adin1110: Fix some error handling path in adin1110_read_fifo()

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 11:09:52 -0700

On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 14:47:22 +0300 Dan Carpenter wrote:
> It's a pity that deliberately doing a "return ret;" when ret is zero is so
> common.  Someone explained to me that it was "done deliberately to express that
> we were propagating the success from frob_whatever()".  No no no!

FWIW I pitched to Linus that we should have a err_t of some sort for
int variables which must never be returned with value of 0.
He wasn't impressed, but I still think it would be useful :)