From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751717AbdJ1UOE (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Oct 2017 16:14:04 -0400 Received: from mout.web.de ([217.72.192.78]:56448 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751283AbdJ1UOB (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Oct 2017 16:14:01 -0400 Subject: Re: can: Use common error handling code in vxcan_newlink() To: Oliver Hartkopp , linux-can@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde , Wolfgang Grandegger , LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org References: <2e600d9a-faec-dd39-08f0-5a7fb260d7ca@users.sourceforge.net> <2ab5d794-7a5c-9036-835c-67cfcc541795@hartkopp.net> <264b3c2b-8354-5769-639c-ac8d2fcbe630@hartkopp.net> <5a76bb36-4ae0-eca2-ae34-69c2bfddb634@users.sourceforge.net> <4d612668-5423-4ce3-a4f5-ee394d7ddd21@hartkopp.net> <19ca5f23-fbb0-aaae-bff5-d634af66c264@users.sourceforge.net> <9d9b724b-229a-acab-54f8-6c45dda96f44@hartkopp.net> From: SF Markus Elfring Message-ID: <8761e059-d33c-a157-4b2f-f01dbdf2a91e@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 22:13:32 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9d9b724b-229a-acab-54f8-6c45dda96f44@hartkopp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:yFAK8VlVk4e5AOZk8Rqb+Zy3mieSLFF0/UH4y92Ymny9r88WRf4 EMdkqn76sSpWG2Th8+/uL/lVKcid/t8Z3mwXu2URagc25udII9vcD/50llRRrSm6FsAQpOi KOf6GoZ5rjHfvh8enINieZkLAkVvtWNDvgMam+5mUw/JmjnnG2/KXaX8IGaj74DkeILruZa rfg4onwwYjhAH23vxqCZQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:2gLSrQsoSQQ=:PHPgB12EwJ1IQ7easXIPGb CHLjVSqNsSCWzeK81wyqZu7brFmqoyNxrs+qOl+eEpE5zPYpi1OP+rAtqGv1UHwOP/zlM6Xzb kgVNbcLcmsp3+HYVV+k+oM9cNS2eHxlEf7UoQEFZu/D8ko7PNtntuOg6ZDDCTCaNHwnMomHUj 0jLinsM2sEq4h/+OkYrB8M/6pa6n3U7vvfFGeeY3xXZMg/0NEdul2FqPRO1IVL5er/NWTUKK4 644PekU9tJL0HrkYzl+waGt/kNlxMbDbMGcrAjl9GOPo7bWSDVrjJgMYo2pfSUdXueAkTrDMS BpARDEGo+2WrluOxnf/Zf5gLWDAVwd41Cdm5afMwrUDxL91YoXZxQVaOs3MrTvzTv/bh44pEa Mx4jf+sEGG2qxgiRdQ+IdnLoO0A35DSnNNs/JumxdGfdR2piZzGcaoAcmzU16ksaA7gDDYcoh Q+fjA/YoW/v5P1kyAK/AL3bIOnUF/ET5XnWXY8PP0ytLLF3yM8Xoh9yQDhbgyMfYatCkRw9fa 6b4Ehw51kBgLKJ8YX9EijbTfxV0MrSs8hXREvC6Th6ax+jkkDk61dfxhzK6ZRhbZ0B7PGW2NR y/VOeIOh/BNbnoQ5YQAvxWRT/WHtPYDFSGL75nm+SDjy1qMTrhODcdoT+cD7G8eBIVfYcBvwm d7jSQNt2WBYeA9NN+l6Km6gYXIzszJXJBZBDzfBW8e9qvhD8XoQUJ4Vi+f+baZRf8sWWPuBHp 5vNG5dQ2vEQZwsKH5W4wnGw8h7SnZtKu2U4Jj/Kbdchgc2tso+uIhJFIqoB+jLnL4qESwlU5H zNR6pFu134QpNoSQd0MXJwEpkMJrk8MbDCzohzN9T5aoNtowO4= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> Are you interested in related adjustments for a bigger code base? > > No. Definitely not. You might have noticed that I am proposing similar changes already for other software modules. ;-) > If you aim for the the deletion of “ < 0” for all rtnl_configure_link() users > you would need to do this consistently. How do you see the software situation around a function like “register_netdevice”? Regards, Markus