netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: remove useless if check from register

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Message-ID: <CAHA+R7PENByJxTc2c09NCJX8q_EHgk7vM1vV=5PxqWHdMe+M9g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:28:53 -0800
From:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To:	Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>
Cc:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: remove useless if check from register_netdevice()

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org> wrote:
> All of the users of ndo_init return negative error code on error path.
> Only staging stuff tries to use positive codes like octeon ethernet
> which does request_irq inside ndo_open...
>

You should put this explanation in the changelog.
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