Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] software node: return -ENOTCONN when referenced swnode is not registered yet

Bartosz Golaszewski
2026-04-09T08:53:58Z

On Wed, Apr 8, 2026 at 8:53 PM Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> One additional question though. I think it should be fine, but are we sure the
> change can't regress other subsystems? It seems some of them (e.g. sfp-bus,
> v4l2, iio) special case -ENOENT.

It seems all users check for -ENOENT for when there *is no such*
property. If this does break anyone in next cycle's RCs, I'm here to
fix it.

Bart