From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Dooks Subject: Re: GPIO: Fix probe() error return in gpio driver probes Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:15:25 +0000 Message-ID: <20081215101524.GA12431@fluff.org.uk> References: <20081212152426.745254309@fluff.org.uk> <20081214213349.GA19483@fluff.org.uk> <200812141611.17555.david-b@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200812141611.17555.david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: David Brownell Cc: Ben Dooks , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 04:11:17PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2008, Ben Dooks wrote: > > Has anyone reveiwed this patch? Are there any comments, or can this > > be commited at somepoint (even if it is during the next merge window)? > > I was thinking that -EINVAL is almost the least informative > diagnostic code possible, since so many places return it > that it's usually hard to find out *which* invalid parameter > triggered ... > > Is there a less-overloaded code you could return? The only other ones that I think would be close are: ENOTSUP Operation not supported (POSIX.1) EPROTO Protocol error (POSIX.1) ENOENT No such file or directory EFAULT Bad address Feedback welcone. > I have no issue with the patch other than that. > > - Dave > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Ben (ben-elnMNo+KYs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, http://www.fluff.org/) 'a smiley only costs 4 bytes'