[PATCH v2 1/3] net/fec: change phy-reset-gpio request warning to debug message
Wolfram Sang
w.sang at pengutronix.de
Wed Sep 21 08:59:05 EDT 2011
> > I agree that keeping it int is way better. But why not add it now to
> > keep things proper and tested? If this patch gets accepted as it is and
> > later someone else will add error checking to the caller, your platform
> > will lose FEC support as a regression.
> >
> Again, fec_reset_phy() failure is not a show-stopper. We might not
> want to make the probe fail because of that.
That would be an argument to make the function returning void?
Well, I still think something like
/* No phy reset configured */
if (phy_reset == -ENODEV)
return 0;
might be cleaner, yet I don't have the setup to test such an approach.
So, I'll be quiet now and hope for no problems.
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