Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/8] net: dpaa: Improve error reporting

From: Maciej Fijalkowski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 19:03:31 +0200

On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 06:28:22PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Instead of the generic error message emitted by the driver core when a
> remove callback returns an error code ("remove callback returned a
> non-zero value. This will be ignored."), emit a message describing the
> actual problem and return zero to suppress the generic message.
> 
> Note that apart from suppressing the generic error message there are no
> side effects by changing the return value to zero. This prepares
> changing the remove callback to return void.
> 
> Acked-by: Madalin Bucur <[email-masked]>
> Reviewed-by: Michal Kubiak <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c
> index 431f8917dc39..6226c03cfca0 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c
> @@ -3516,6 +3516,8 @@ static int dpaa_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	phylink_destroy(priv->mac_dev->phylink);
>  
>  	err = dpaa_fq_free(dev, &priv->dpaa_fq_list);
> +	if (err)
> +		dev_err(dev, "Failed to free FQs on remove\n");

so 'err' is now redundant - if you don't have any value in printing this
out then you could remove this variable altogether.

>  
>  	qman_delete_cgr_safe(&priv->ingress_cgr);
>  	qman_release_cgrid(priv->ingress_cgr.cgrid);
> @@ -3528,7 +3530,7 @@ static int dpaa_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  
>  	free_netdev(net_dev);
>  
> -	return err;
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static const struct platform_device_id dpaa_devtype[] = {
> -- 
> 2.39.2
> 
>