On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 11:42:17PM +0000, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote: > >> >@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ struct request_queue *blk_alloc_queue(make_request_fn make_request, int node_id) > >> > struct request_queue *q; > >> > > >> > if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!make_request)) > >> >- return -EINVAL; > >> >+ return NULL; > > Maybe return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL) is better. > > > > Initially I used that, what if existing callers are reallying on > NULL vs !NULL return value ? Use of NULL just makes the code > consistent with existing return value. > > If Jens is okay with ERR_PTR(), I'll send V2. The callers can't handle an ERR_PTR, so v1 is correct.