On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 01:02:14PM +0530, Allen Pais wrote: > Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> Hi Allen Although correct, if you look higher up the call chain, this appears to be not so useful. rlb_initialize() is only called by bond_alb_initialize(), and it propagates the -1. That is only called by bond_open() with: if (bond_alb_initialize(bond, (BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_ALB))) return -ENOMEM; So you might want to also modify this code, to return the return value, rather than use the hard coded ENOMEM. Since you code is OK as far as it goes: Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Andrew