From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: dmaengine <dmaengine@vger.kernel.org>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>,
Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>,
Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Subject: [v2,1/6] ACPI / bus: Return error code from __acpi_match_device() in one case
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:56:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1517846179.22495.27.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
On Sun, 2018-02-04 at 08:16 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 9:20 PM, Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > Instead of playing tricks with last invalid entry,
> > return simple -ENODATA error code casted to pointer.
> >
> > It would be good for future in case caller passes NULL pointer for
> > ID table. Moreover, caller can check the code to be sure what
> > happened
> > inside callee.
> > - return id;
> > + return ERR_PTR(-ENODATA);
>
> So why is returning id from here a problem?
I think you already noticed that in the following patch it becomes a
problem if user supply ids == NULL.
That's why I added a second paragraph to the commit message to explain.
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2018-02-05 15:56 Andy Shevchenko [this message]
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2018-02-04 7:16 [v2,1/6] ACPI / bus: Return error code from __acpi_match_device() in one case Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-02-01 20:20 Andy Shevchenko
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