linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: toshiba: fix return type of ndo_start

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Message-ID: <44f9d0cf-e842-696a-2e49-e16643ea668e@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:10:46 -0700
From:   Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>
To:     YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org, mpe@...erman.id.au,
        kou.ishizaki@...hiba.co.jp, andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: toshiba: fix return type of ndo_start_xmit
 function

Hi Yue, 

On 09/19/2018 03:23 AM, YueHaibing wrote:
> The method ndo_start_xmit() is defined as returning an 'netdev_tx_t',
> which is a typedef for an enum type, so make sure the implementation in
> this driver has returns 'netdev_tx_t' value, and change the function
> return type to netdev_tx_t.
> 
> Found by coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>

I tested this against Linux-4.19-rc4, and it seemed to work OK.

Please remove the irrelevant line 'Found by coccinelle.' from the
commit message.  With that change:

  Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>

-Geoff