netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ethernet: renesas: Fix return type in rswitch_etha_wait_link

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Date:   Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:22:02 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Cc:     Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>,
        Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ethernet: renesas: Fix return type in rswitch_etha_wait_link_verification()

On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 2:14 PM Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com> wrote:
> The rswitch_etha_wait_link_verification() is supposed to return zero
> on success or negative error codes.  Unfortunately it is declared as a
> bool so the caller treats everything as success.
>
> Fixes: 3590918b5d07 ("net: ethernet: renesas: Add support for "Ethernet Switch"")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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