20/01/2023 17:47, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 23:41:40 -0500
> ok...@kernel.org wrote:
>
> > diff --git a/lib/ethdev/ethdev_vdev.h b/lib/ethdev/ethdev_vdev.h
> > index 364f140f91..6d94a65d97 100644
> > --- a/lib/ethdev/ethdev_vdev.h
> > +++ b/lib/ethdev/ethdev_vdev.h
> > @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ rte_eth_vdev_allocate(struct rte_vdev_device *dev, size_t
> > private_data_size)
> > {
> > struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev;
> > const char *name = rte_vdev_device_name(dev);
> > + if (name == NULL)
> > + return NULL;
>
> Please add a blank line after declarations and before code.
> For some reason the DPDK version of checkpatch suppresses this warning.
The check of "name" is related to the line above,
so I don't think we should insert a blank line.
