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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	"G, Manjunath Kondaiah" <manjugk@ti.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dilan Lee <dilee@nvidia.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Manjunath GKondaiah <manjunath.gkondaiah@linaro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] drivercore: add new error value for deferred probe
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 17:12:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111008001237.GA30551@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32004.1318030113@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 07:28:33PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:12:45 MDT, Grant Likely said:
> > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 10:33:06AM +0500, G, Manjunath Kondaiah wrote:
> 
> > >> +#define EPROBE_DEFER 517     /* restart probe again after some time */
> > >
> > > Can we really do this?
> 
> > According to Arnd, yes this is okay.
> 
> > >  Isn't this some user/kernel api here?
> 
> > > What's wrong with just "overloading" on top of an existing error code?
> > > Surely one of the other 516 types could be used here, right?
> 
> > overloading makes it really hard to find the users at a later date.
> 
> Would proposing '#define EPROBE_DEFER EAGAIN' be acceptable to everybody? That
> would allow overloading EAGAIN, but still make it easy to tell the usages apart
> if we need to separate them later...

Yes, please do that, it is what USB does for it's internal error code
handling.

greg k-h

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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] drivercore: add new error value for deferred probe
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 17:12:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111008001237.GA30551@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32004.1318030113@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 07:28:33PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:12:45 MDT, Grant Likely said:
> > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 10:33:06AM +0500, G, Manjunath Kondaiah wrote:
> 
> > >> +#define EPROBE_DEFER 517 ? ? /* restart probe again after some time */
> > >
> > > Can we really do this?
> 
> > According to Arnd, yes this is okay.
> 
> > > ?Isn't this some user/kernel api here?
> 
> > > What's wrong with just "overloading" on top of an existing error code?
> > > Surely one of the other 516 types could be used here, right?
> 
> > overloading makes it really hard to find the users at a later date.
> 
> Would proposing '#define EPROBE_DEFER EAGAIN' be acceptable to everybody? That
> would allow overloading EAGAIN, but still make it easy to tell the usages apart
> if we need to separate them later...

Yes, please do that, it is what USB does for it's internal error code
handling.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-08  0:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 116+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-07  5:33 [PATCH 0/5] Driver Probe Deferral Mechanism G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-07  5:33 ` [PATCH 1/5] drivercore: add new error value for deferred probe G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-07  6:43   ` Greg KH
2011-10-07  6:43     ` Greg KH
2011-10-07 10:00     ` Mark Brown
2011-10-07 10:00       ` Mark Brown
2011-10-07 22:12     ` Grant Likely
2011-10-07 22:12       ` Grant Likely
2011-10-07 23:28       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-10-07 23:28         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-10-07 23:28         ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2011-10-08  0:12         ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-10-08  0:12           ` Greg KH
2011-10-09 22:59           ` Grant Likely
2011-10-09 22:59             ` Grant Likely
2011-10-09 22:59             ` Grant Likely
2011-10-10  1:06             ` Greg KH
2011-10-10  1:06               ` Greg KH
2011-10-10  1:06               ` Greg KH
2011-10-12  6:18               ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-12  6:18                 ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-13  4:10                 ` Grant Likely
2011-10-13  4:10                   ` Grant Likely
2011-10-07  5:33 ` [PATCH 2/5] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-07  6:49   ` Greg KH
2011-10-07  6:49     ` Greg KH
2011-10-07 20:57     ` Josh Triplett
2011-10-07 20:57       ` Josh Triplett
2011-10-07 21:23       ` Greg KH
2011-10-07 21:23         ` Greg KH
2011-10-08  4:03         ` Josh Triplett
2011-10-08  4:03           ` Josh Triplett
2011-10-08 15:55           ` Greg KH
2011-10-08 15:55             ` Greg KH
2011-10-08 18:18             ` Josh Triplett
2011-10-08 18:18               ` Josh Triplett
2011-10-10 17:37             ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-10-10 17:37               ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-10-11 12:29               ` Ming Lei
2011-10-11 12:29                 ` Ming Lei
2011-10-13  4:09                 ` Grant Likely
2011-10-13  4:09                   ` Grant Likely
2011-10-13 14:18                   ` Ming Lei
2011-10-13 14:18                     ` Ming Lei
2011-10-13 14:31                     ` Alan Stern
2011-10-13 14:31                       ` Alan Stern
2011-10-13 14:31                       ` Alan Stern
2011-10-13 15:21                       ` Ming Lei
2011-10-13 15:21                         ` Ming Lei
2011-10-13 16:04                         ` Alan Stern
2011-10-13 16:04                           ` Alan Stern
2011-10-13 16:04                           ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14  0:13                           ` Ming Lei
2011-10-14  0:13                             ` Ming Lei
2011-10-13 17:15                       ` Grant Likely
2011-10-13 17:15                         ` Grant Likely
2011-10-13 18:16                         ` Alan Stern
2011-10-13 18:16                           ` Alan Stern
2011-10-13 18:16                           ` Alan Stern
2011-10-13 18:28                           ` Grant Likely
2011-10-13 18:28                             ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 15:39                             ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 15:39                               ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 15:39                               ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 16:17                               ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 16:17                                 ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 16:33                                 ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 16:33                                   ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 16:33                                   ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 17:20                                   ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 17:20                                     ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 17:33                                     ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 17:33                                       ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 17:33                                       ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 18:25                                       ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 18:25                                         ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 18:39                                         ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 18:39                                           ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 18:39                                           ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 19:07                                           ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 19:07                                             ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 18:56                                     ` David Daney
2011-10-14 18:56                                       ` David Daney
2011-10-14 19:03                                       ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 19:03                                         ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 19:03                                         ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 19:09                                         ` David Daney
2011-10-14 19:09                                           ` David Daney
2011-10-14 15:37                         ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 15:37                           ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 15:37                           ` Alan Stern
2011-10-12  7:04               ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-12  7:04                 ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-07 21:28     ` Grant Likely
2011-10-07 21:28       ` Grant Likely
2011-10-07 21:28       ` Grant Likely
2011-10-07  5:33 ` [PATCH 3/5] regulator: Support driver probe deferral G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-07  5:33 ` [PATCH 4/5] gpiolib: handle deferral probe error G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-07 10:06   ` Alan Cox
2011-10-07 10:06     ` Alan Cox
2011-10-07 10:06     ` Alan Cox
2011-10-07 22:09     ` Grant Likely
2011-10-07 22:09       ` Grant Likely
2011-10-12  6:14       ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-12  6:14         ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-12  6:14         ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-13  4:12         ` Grant Likely
2011-10-13  4:12           ` Grant Likely
2011-10-07  5:33 ` [PATCH 5/5] omap: hsmmc: use platform_driver_register G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-07  6:50 ` [PATCH 0/5] Driver Probe Deferral Mechanism Greg KH
2011-10-07  6:50   ` Greg KH
2011-10-07  6:50   ` Greg KH
2011-10-07  7:37   ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-07  7:37     ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-07  7:37     ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-07  5:05 G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-07  5:05 ` [PATCH 1/5] drivercore: add new error value for deferred probe G, Manjunath Kondaiah

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