Re: [PATCH net-next v1] devlink: Make devlink_register to be void

From: Jiri Pirko
Date: Wed Sep 22 2021 - 08:18:42 EST


Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 10:58:03AM CEST, leon@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>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@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxx>