netdev - Re: [PATCH 06/10] drivers:ethernet: return -ENOMEM on allocation failure.

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Message-Id: <20170913.092031.2176431746672254970.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:20:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     allen.lkml@...il.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...adcom.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, megaraidlinux.pdl@...adcom.com,
        target-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] drivers:ethernet: return -ENOMEM on allocation
 failure.

From: Allen Pais <allen.lkml@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:02:15 +0530

> Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.lkml@...il.com>

This is quite pointless as the caller doesn't do anything with
the value, it just tests whether a negative value is returned
or not.