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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@samsung.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: wm97xx - use EBUSY instead of EINVAL
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:01:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090603100120.GA31919@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A260DEB.2040306@samsung.com>

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:45:15PM +0900, Joonyoung Shim wrote:
> If request_irq() fails, we have to return -EBUSY instead of -EINVAL.

Could you provide a bit more explanation for this one, please?  -EBUSY
seems to give entirely the wrong impression to applications since in the
systems where this driver will be deployed a failure to acquire the IRQ
is most likely to be due to incorrect platform data and it is highly
unlikely to resolve itself.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-03 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-03  5:45 [PATCH] Input: wm97xx - use EBUSY instead of EINVAL Joonyoung Shim
2009-06-03 10:01 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2009-06-03 14:19   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-06-03 14:40     ` Mark Brown
2009-06-03 14:48       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-06-04  1:26   ` Joonyoung Shim

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