netdev - Re: [PATCH v9 07/17] virtio: Don't set FAILED status bit on device index allocation failure

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Date:   Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:25:33 +0800
From:   Yongji Xie <xieyongji@...edance.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
        Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>,
        Parav Pandit <parav@...dia.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...onical.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, bcrl@...ck.org,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@...tfour.com>,
        joro@...tes.org, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        He Zhe <zhe.he@...driver.com>,
        Liu Xiaodong <xiaodong.liu@...el.com>,
        songmuchun@...edance.com,
        virtualization <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 07/17] virtio: Don't set FAILED status bit on device
 index allocation failure

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 7:02 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 04:46:46PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> > We don't need to set FAILED status bit on device index allocation
> > failure since the device initialization hasn't been started yet.
>
> The commit message should say what the effect of this change is to the
> user.  Is this a bugfix?  Will it have any effect on runtime at all?
>

Thanks for the reminder. Will update the commit message.

> To me, hearing your thoughts on this is valuable even if you have to
> guess.  "I noticed this mistake during review and I don't think it will
> affect runtime."
>

Yes, that's what I thought.

Thanks,
Yongji