Re: [PATCH 1/5] iio: adc: vf610: Propagate the real error when platform_get_irq() fails

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On 04/10/14 19:46, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> wrote:
>> On 03/10/14 02:25, Fabio Estevam wrote:
>>> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
>>>
>>> There is no need to pass a 'fake' return value when platform_get_irq() fails.
>>>
>>> Propagate the real error instead.
>>>
>>> While at it, only consider negative numbers returned by platform_get_irq()
>>> as error.
>> Returning an irq of 0 is still invalid isn't it?
>> (there was a lot of 'fun' making this true for Arm a few years back).
>> Doesn't it effectively mean no irq is present?
> 
> In practice I cannot see how platform_get_irq() could return 0. Only
> if the dtsi was providing 0 as the irq number for the vf610-adc
> driver, which would mean a very broken dtsi.
> 
> This driver is used only by vf610 and imx6sx and their dtsi provide
> the correct values for the adc irq.
> 
> This type of check:
> 
>        if (irq < 0)
>                return irq;
> 
> is commonly used on the imx drivers and I was not aware of any
> problems in this regard.

Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git.  Will get pushed out as testing
for the autobuilders to play when I'm not hanging out in a clean room
(not that clean as my laptop is in it ;) with no network connection
and a delightful hair net.
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