Re: [PATCH net-next 4/6] devlink: Clean registration of devlink port
From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Wed Nov 17 2021 - 23:49:39 EST
On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 20:26:20 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> devlink_port_register() is in-kernel API and as such can't really fail
> as long as driver author didn't make a mistake by providing already existing
> port index. Instead of relying on various error prints from the driver,
> convert the existence check to be WARN_ON(), so such a mistake will be
> caught easier.
>
> As an outcome of this conversion, it was made clear that this function
> should be void and devlink->lock was intended to protect addition to
> port_list.
Leave this error checking in please.