netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2 2/2] net/smc: correct the reason code in smc_listen_find

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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 11:00:32 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Guangguan Wang <guangguan.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: kgraul@...ux.ibm.com, wenjia@...ux.ibm.com, jaka@...ux.ibm.com,
 davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, pabeni@...hat.com,
 tonylu@...ux.alibaba.com, alibuda@...ux.alibaba.com,
 guwen@...ux.alibaba.com, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 2/2] net/smc: correct the reason code in
 smc_listen_find_device when fallback

On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 20:42:34 +0800 Guangguan Wang wrote:
> The ini->rc is used to store the last error happened when finding usable
> ism or rdma device in smc_listen_find_device, and is set by calling smc_
> find_device_store_rc. Once the ini->rc is assigned to an none-zero value,
> the value can not be overwritten anymore. So the ini-rc should be set to
> the error reason only when an error actually occurs.
> 
> When finding ISM/RDMA devices, device not found is not a real error, as
> not all machine have ISM/RDMA devices. Failures after device found, when
> initializing device or when initializing connection, is real errors, and
> should be store in ini->rc.
> 
> SMC_CLC_DECL_DIFFPREFIX also is not a real error, as for SMC-RV2, it is
> not require same prefix.

If it's important enough to be a fix this late in the release cycle,
it better come with a Fixes tag...
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