netdev - Re: [PATCH] r8152: correct error returns

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Date:	Tue, 05 Aug 2014 09:43:04 +0200
From:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nic_swsd@...ltek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8152: correct error returns

On Mon, 2014-08-04 at 15:18 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 09:06:58 +0200
> 
> > OK, I just looked at this single driver. I'll try to come up with
> > a generic solution. The mapping is a bit simplistic. I should let
> > -ENOMEM pass for example.
> 
> And the problem also isn't limited USB networking drivers, just
> about every driver I looked at passed these autopm errors right
> back to userspace.

I drilled a gas bubble.

> Largely people just call the autopm interfaces and propagate any
> errors they get.  So you probably want to put the translator/filter
> there.

That would swallow up all error returns and hurt the users who actually
use the error codes. How about a native and a sanitized
version?

> But of course, that doesn't handle the non-autopm code paths into the
> PM layer that can end up in this situation.
Hm. Are they numerous? Which did you find?

	Regards
		Oliver


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