The declaration of request_irq() in <linux/interrupt.h> is marked as __must_check.
Without the return value check, I see the following warnings: drivers/net/ethernet/lantiq_etop.c: In function 'ltq_etop_hw_init': drivers/net/ethernet/lantiq_etop.c:273:4: warning: ignoring return value of 'request_irq', declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result] 273 | request_irq(irq, ltq_etop_dma_irq, 0, "etop_tx", priv); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/net/ethernet/lantiq_etop.c:281:4: warning: ignoring return value of 'request_irq', declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result] 281 | request_irq(irq, ltq_etop_dma_irq, 0, "etop_rx", priv); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Reported-by: Miguel Ojeda <oj...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahi...@kernel.org> --- drivers/net/ethernet/lantiq_etop.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/lantiq_etop.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/lantiq_etop.c index 2d0c52f7106b..960494f9752b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/lantiq_etop.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/lantiq_etop.c @@ -264,13 +264,18 @@ ltq_etop_hw_init(struct net_device *dev) for (i = 0; i < MAX_DMA_CHAN; i++) { int irq = LTQ_DMA_CH0_INT + i; struct ltq_etop_chan *ch = &priv->ch[i]; + int ret; ch->idx = ch->dma.nr = i; ch->dma.dev = &priv->pdev->dev; if (IS_TX(i)) { ltq_dma_alloc_tx(&ch->dma); - request_irq(irq, ltq_etop_dma_irq, 0, "etop_tx", priv); + ret = request_irq(irq, ltq_etop_dma_irq, 0, "etop_tx", priv); + if (ret) { + netdev_err(dev, "failed to request irq\n"); + return ret; + } } else if (IS_RX(i)) { ltq_dma_alloc_rx(&ch->dma); for (ch->dma.desc = 0; ch->dma.desc < LTQ_DESC_NUM; @@ -278,7 +283,11 @@ ltq_etop_hw_init(struct net_device *dev) if (ltq_etop_alloc_skb(ch)) return -ENOMEM; ch->dma.desc = 0; - request_irq(irq, ltq_etop_dma_irq, 0, "etop_rx", priv); + ret = request_irq(irq, ltq_etop_dma_irq, 0, "etop_rx", priv); + if (ret) { + netdev_err(dev, "failed to request irq\n"); + return ret; + } } ch->dma.irq = irq; } -- 2.27.0