[PATCH 1/2] net: phy: Add error checks in the driver

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Fri Aug 19 06:15:17 PDT 2016


> -	mdiobus_write(phydev->mdio.bus, priv->addr, XILINX_GMII2RGMII_REG, val);
> +	err = mdiobus_write(phydev->mdio.bus, priv->addr, XILINX_GMII2RGMII_REG,
> +			    val);
> +	if (err < 0)
> +		return err;
>  
>  	return 0;

Do you need to assign err? Why not just

   return mdiobus_write(phydev->mdio.bus, priv->addr, XILINX_GMII2RGMII_REG,
			val);



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