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author | Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> | 2021-09-22 11:58:03 +0300 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2021-09-22 14:15:12 +0100 |
commit | db4278c55fa53760893266538e86e638330b03bb (patch) | |
tree | c2b028bf752e268e9a85791aa199db4f559b80be /include/net/devlink.h | |
parent | 07b855628c226511542d0911cba1b180541fbb84 (diff) | |
download | lwn-db4278c55fa53760893266538e86e638330b03bb.tar.gz lwn-db4278c55fa53760893266538e86e638330b03bb.zip |
devlink: Make devlink_register to be void
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@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
Acked-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com> # dsa
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/devlink.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/net/devlink.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/devlink.h b/include/net/devlink.h index 0e06b3dbbec6..c902e8e5f012 100644 --- a/include/net/devlink.h +++ b/include/net/devlink.h @@ -1566,7 +1566,7 @@ static inline struct devlink *devlink_alloc(const struct devlink_ops *ops, { return devlink_alloc_ns(ops, priv_size, &init_net, dev); } -int devlink_register(struct devlink *devlink); +void devlink_register(struct devlink *devlink); void devlink_unregister(struct devlink *devlink); void devlink_reload_enable(struct devlink *devlink); void devlink_reload_disable(struct devlink *devlink); |