From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:49:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v10 2/2] tty/serial: Add Spreadtrum sc9836-uart driver support In-Reply-To: <54CBA426.7050900@hurleysoftware.com> References: <1422443324-25082-1-git-send-email-chunyan.zhang@spreadtrum.com> <1422443324-25082-3-git-send-email-chunyan.zhang@spreadtrum.com> <54CA5128.8050500@gmail.com> <54CA568E.6080306@hurleysoftware.com> <20150129160553.GC26493@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20150130101838.GC16744@ulmo> <54CB72F7.8060706@hurleysoftware.com> <20150130140854.GJ26493@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <54CBA426.7050900@hurleysoftware.com> Message-ID: <20150130154926.GN26493@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:32:54AM -0500, Peter Hurley wrote: > Before you say consistency, I think you should look at the stats below. > IOW, if you want to change the error code return from probe() for > consistency's sake, a tree-wide patch would be the appropriate way. Now look outside the serial driver sub-tree. There are 1234 instances of platform_get_resource(, IORESOURCE_MEM, ) in the drivers/ sub-tree, with 700 instances of devm_ioremap_resource() being used there. Of the devm_ioremap_resource() instances: - 555 use platform_get_resource() in the preceding two lines - which is not enough to do anything but rely on the -EINVAL return value. - 16 mention ENODEV in the preceding three lines. There are 132 which use platform_get_resource() and return ENODEV within the following three lines (which may intersect with the above 16 number) and 88 which use EINVAL. So, there are in total 643 instances where a missing resource returns EINVAL, and between 132 and 148 instances which return ENODEV. Yes, 643 + 148 isn't 1234, but I'm not going to read through all 1234 locations just for the sake of this thread. What's clear though is that more than 50% of sites using platform_get_resource(, IORESOURCE_MEM, ) return EINVAL for the lack of a resource. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 10.5Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net.