netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] net/fec: change phy-reset-gpio request warning to debug message

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Date:	Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:59:05 +0200
From:	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
To:	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...escale.com>
Cc:	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, patches@...aro.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Troy Kisky <troy.kisky@...ndarydevices.com>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Lothar Waßmann <LW@...O-electronics.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] net/fec: change phy-reset-gpio request warning
 to debug message

> > I agree that keeping it int is way better. But why not add it now to
> > keep things proper and tested? If this patch gets accepted as it is and
> > later someone else will add error checking to the caller, your platform
> > will lose FEC support as a regression.
> > 
> Again, fec_reset_phy() failure is not a show-stopper.  We might not
> want to make the probe fail because of that.

That would be an argument to make the function returning void?

Well, I still think something like 

	/* No phy reset configured */
	if (phy_reset == -ENODEV)
		return 0;

might be cleaner, yet I don't have the setup to test such an approach.

So, I'll be quiet now and hope for no problems.

-- 
Pengutronix e.K.                           | Wolfram Sang                |
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