netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: ti: netcp_core: return netdev_tx

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Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:45:21 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org
Cc:     w-kwok2@...com, m-karicheri2@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: ti: netcp_core: return netdev_tx_t in
 xmit

From: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org>
Date: Thu,  9 Feb 2017 16:24:14 +0200

> @@ -1300,7 +1301,7 @@ static int netcp_ndo_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
>  			dev_warn(netcp->ndev_dev, "padding failed (%d), packet dropped\n",
>  				 ret);
>  			tx_stats->tx_dropped++;
> -			return ret;
> +			return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
>  		}
>  		skb->len = NETCP_MIN_PACKET_SIZE;
>  	}
> @@ -1329,7 +1330,7 @@ static int netcp_ndo_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
>  	if (desc)
>  		netcp_free_tx_desc_chain(netcp, desc, sizeof(*desc));
>  	dev_kfree_skb(skb);
> -	return ret;
> +	return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
>  }

I really think these should be returning NET_XMIT_DROP.