Re: [PATCH 06/13] staging: r8188eu: make rtl8188eu_inirp_init a void function

[Martin Kaiser]

Hi Pavel,

Thus wrote Pavel Skripkin (paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx):

> Martin Kaiser <martin@xxxxxxxxx> says:

> > rtl8188eu_inirp_init's return value is not checked by its caller. Make
> > rtl8188eu_inirp_init a void function.

> Hm, shouldn't we actually check return value on caller side?

> This thing is called from netdev_open and issues urbs to read data from the
> device. So let's imagine that we fail on 1st iteration (for some reason):
> netdev_open() says all is OK, but driver does not communicate with the
> device.

your're right. It makes sense to relay the return value to _netdev_open.
We'd have to update/remove the intf_start pointer and usb_intf_start.

I'll resend the series without this patch and submit new patches for
relaying the error code.

Thanks & best regards,

   Martin