netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] net: stmmac: Add interconnect support

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Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:23:47 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Sagar Cheluvegowda <quic_scheluve@...cinc.com>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
	Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
	Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
	Bhupesh Sharma <bhupesh.sharma@...aro.org>, kernel@...cinc.com,
	Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@...hat.com>, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] net: stmmac: Add interconnect support

> > Sorry, PTR_ERR().
> > 
> > In general, a cast to a void * is a red flag and will get looked
> > at. It is generally wrong. So you might want to fixup where ever you
> > copied this from.
> > 
> > 	Andrew

> the return type of stmmac_probe_config_dt is a pointer of type plat_stmmacenet_data,
> as PTR_ERR would give long integer value i don't think it would be ideal to
> return an integer value here, if casting plat->axi_icc_path to a void * doesn't look
> good, let me if the below solution is better or not?

>  	plat->axi_icc_path = devm_of_icc_get(&pdev->dev, "axi");
> 	if (IS_ERR(plat->axi_icc_path)) {
> 		rc = PTR_ERR(plat->axi_icc_path);
> 		ret = ERR_PTR(rc);

Don't you think this looks ugly?

If it looks ugly, it is probably wrong. You cannot be the first person
to find the return type of an error is wrong. So a quick bit of
searching found ERR_CAST().

	Andrew