netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next] net: ethernet: ti: cpdma: correct error handling for chan create

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Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:51:23 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org
Cc:     grygorii.strashko@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next] net: ethernet: ti: cpdma: correct error
 handling for chan create

From: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 23:06:35 +0200

> It's not correct to return NULL when that is actually an error and
> function returns errors in any other wrong case. In the same time,
> the cpsw driver and davinci emac doesn't check error case while
> creating channel and it can miss actual error. Also remove WARNs
> replacing them on dev_err msgs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org>

Applied.