netdev - Re: [PATCH] i40e (gcc13): synchronize allocate/free functions return type & values

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Message-ID: <20221102204110.26a6f021@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 2 Nov 2022 20:41:10 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Cc:     jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Martin Liska <mliska@...e.cz>,
        Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i40e (gcc13): synchronize allocate/free functions
 return type & values

On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:44:56 +0100 Jiri Slaby (SUSE) wrote:
> I.e. the type of their return value in the definition is int, while the
> declaration spell enum i40e_status. Synchronize the definitions to the
> latter.
> 
> And make sure proper values are returned. I.e. I40E_SUCCESS and not 0,
> I40E_ERR_NO_MEMORY and not -ENOMEM.

Let's go the opposite way, towards using standard errno.