Date:   Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:34:58 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To:     Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
Cc:     Yisen Zhuang <yisen.zhuang@huawei.com>,
        Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
        Broadcom internal kernel review list 
        <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
        Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
        Marek =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beh=FAn?= <kabel@kernel.org>,
        Xu Liang <lxu@maxlinear.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] net: phy: add error checks in
 mmd_phy_indirect() and export it
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 11:40:07PM +0100, Michael Walle wrote:
> Add missing error checks in mmd_phy_indirect(). The error checks need to
> be disabled to retain the current behavior in phy_read_mmd() and
> phy_write_mmd(). Therefore, add a new parameter to enable the error
> checks. Add a thin wrapper __phy_mmd_indirect() which is then exported.

Do we need to retain the current behavior? Is there a good reason to
silently ignore errors? If there is, it would be good to state it here
in the commit message.

   Andrew