[U-Boot] [PATCH] net: rtl8169: Fix return value for rtl_send_common

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Jul 4 17:40:11 CEST 2016


On 1 July 2016 at 14:22, Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo at bluezbox.com> wrote:
> Return value of rtl_send_common propogates unmodified all the way
> up to eth_send and further to API consumer if CONFIG_API is enabled.
> Previously rtl_send_common returned number of bytes sent on success
> which was erroneouly detected as error condition by API consumers
> that checked for operation success by comparing return value with 0.
>
> Switch rtl_send_common to use common convention: return 0 on success
> and negative value for failure.
>
> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> Cc: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>
> Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo at bluezbox.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/rtl8169.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

But I'd like to see a function comment on rtl_send_common(), and on
the driver-model send() method in struct eth_ops, for that matter.

- Simon


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