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From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux-lFZ/pmaqli7XmaaqVzeoHQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Peter Hurley
	<peter-WaGBZJeGNqdsbIuE7sb01tBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>,
	Thierry Reding
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Cc: Varka Bhadram
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	Chunyan Zhang
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 2/2] tty/serial: Add Spreadtrum sc9836-uart driver support
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:05:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150129160553.GC26493@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54CA568E.6080306-WaGBZJeGNqdsbIuE7sb01tBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:49:34AM -0500, Peter Hurley wrote:
> Hi Varka,
> 
> On 01/29/2015 10:26 AM, Varka Bhadram wrote:
> > This check is not required. It will be done by devm_ioremap_resource()
> 
> I disagree. devm_ioremap_resource() interprets the NULL resource as
> a bad parameter and returns -EINVAL which is then forwarded as the
> return value from the probe.
> 
> -ENODEV is the correct return value from the probe if the expected
> resource is not available (either because it doesn't exist or was already
> claimed by another driver).

(Adding Thierry as the author of this function.)

I believe devm_ioremap_resource() was explicitly designed to remove such
error handling from drivers, and to give drivers a unified error response
to such things as missing resources.

See the comments for this function in lib/devres.c.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-29 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <sc9836-serial-v10>
2015-01-28 11:08 ` [PATCH v10 0/2] Add Spreadtrum SoC bindings and serial driver support Chunyan Zhang
2015-01-28 11:08   ` [PATCH v10 1/2] Documentation: DT: Add bindings for Spreadtrum SoC Platform Chunyan Zhang
2015-01-28 11:08   ` [PATCH v10 2/2] tty/serial: Add Spreadtrum sc9836-uart driver support Chunyan Zhang
2015-01-29 15:26     ` Varka Bhadram
     [not found]       ` <54CA5128.8050500-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-29 15:32         ` Varka Bhadram
2015-01-29 15:49         ` Peter Hurley
     [not found]           ` <54CA568E.6080306-WaGBZJeGNqdsbIuE7sb01tBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-29 16:05             ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
     [not found]               ` <20150129160553.GC26493-l+eeeJia6m9vn6HldHNs0ANdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-29 16:34                 ` Peter Hurley
2015-01-30 10:18                 ` Thierry Reding
2015-01-30 12:03                   ` Peter Hurley
     [not found]                     ` <54CB72F7.8060706-WaGBZJeGNqdsbIuE7sb01tBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-30 14:08                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-01-30 15:32                         ` Peter Hurley
     [not found]                           ` <54CBA426.7050900-WaGBZJeGNqdsbIuE7sb01tBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-30 15:49                             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
     [not found]                               ` <20150130154926.GN26493-l+eeeJia6m9vn6HldHNs0ANdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-30 15:59                                 ` Peter Hurley
     [not found]           ` <54CA59F1.3060008@gmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <54CA59F1.3060008-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-29 16:16               ` Peter Hurley

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