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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
To: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>,
	linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] i2c: taos-evm: convert to use i2c_new_client_device()
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:56:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200115195621.GB23789@ninjato> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200109094228.2e058653@endymion>

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> In my opinion -ENODEV should only be used for "I expected a device but
> could not find it". For the case where we simply don't know what slave
> device to instantiate, NULL seems more appropriate, as it's not an
> error.

Well, I copied the behaviour from driver core here. -ENODEV is the one
errno where no messages will be displayed when returned from probe. So,
I think we can keep it as is.


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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-15 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-07 17:47 [PATCH 00/12] i2c: convert subsystem to use i2c_new_client_device() Wolfram Sang
2020-01-07 17:47 ` [PATCH 01/12] i2c: cht-wc: convert " Wolfram Sang
2020-01-09 23:05   ` Hans de Goede
2020-01-07 17:47 ` [PATCH 02/12] i2c: i801: " Wolfram Sang
2020-01-09  8:54   ` Jean Delvare
2020-01-07 17:47 ` [PATCH 03/12] i2c: nvidia-gpu: " Wolfram Sang
2020-01-07 17:47 ` [PATCH 04/12] i2c: ocores: " Wolfram Sang
2020-01-07 18:32   ` Peter Korsgaard
2020-01-07 19:31     ` Wolfram Sang
2020-01-07 19:58       ` Peter Korsgaard
2020-01-07 19:36     ` Andrew Lunn
2020-01-07 17:47 ` [PATCH 05/12] i2c: powermac: " Wolfram Sang
2020-01-07 17:47 ` [PATCH 06/12] i2c: taos-evm: " Wolfram Sang
2020-01-08 10:58   ` Jean Delvare
2020-01-09  8:42     ` Jean Delvare
2020-01-15 19:56       ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2020-01-07 17:47 ` [PATCH 07/12] i2c: xiic: " Wolfram Sang
2020-01-08 11:39   ` Michal Simek
2020-01-07 17:47 ` [PATCH 08/12] i2c: i2c-core-acpi: " Wolfram Sang
2020-01-08 10:04   ` Mika Westerberg
2020-01-07 17:47 ` [PATCH 09/12] i2c: i2c-core-base: " Wolfram Sang
2020-01-07 17:47 ` [PATCH 10/12] i2c: i2c-core-of: " Wolfram Sang
2020-01-07 17:47 ` [PATCH 11/12] docs: i2c: use the new API in 'instantiating-devices.rst' Wolfram Sang
2020-01-07 17:47 ` [PATCH 12/12] docs: i2c: use the new API in 'writing-clients' Wolfram Sang
2020-01-15 19:57 ` [PATCH 00/12] i2c: convert subsystem to use i2c_new_client_device() Wolfram Sang

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