netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/22] net: fix return type of ndo_start

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Date:   Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:04:58 -0500
From:   Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/22] net: fix return type of ndo_start_xmit
 function



On 09/20/2018 07:32 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.
> 

May be I missed smth, but it's acceptable to report standard error codes from
.xmit() callback as per dev_xmit_complete().

-- 
regards,
-grygorii