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From: ALOK TIWARI <alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com>
To: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>
Cc: daire.mcnamara@microchip.com, lpieralisi@kernel.org,
	kwilczynski@kernel.org, bhelgaas@google.com, robh@kernel.org,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Xichao Zhao <zhao.xichao@vivo.com>
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: [PATCH] PCI: plda: Remove the use of dev_err_probe()
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:40:57 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f96e533-4863-4085-9da0-99053e0e5901@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtlzppunpkrzwpdfplyzcm53fpxik335wtng7ethfjyvu4tph@df5xusqn25it>



On 9/15/2025 7:37 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
>>> Change is fine as it is. But I think devm_pci_alloc_host_bridge() should return
>>> the actual error pointer instead of NULL and let the callers guess the errno.
>>>
>>> Callers are using both -ENOMEM and -ENODEV, both of then will mask the actual
>>> errno that caused the failure.
>>>
>>> Cleanup task for someone interested 🙂
>>>
>>> - Mani
>> Did you really intend to do that,
> No, I don't have bandwidth right now.
> 
>> Should that be an RFC (for cleanup task) patch ?

I am planning to send a patch for this cleanup.
It will touch all files under drivers/pci/controller/,
and I hope it will be useful.

Thanks,
Alok

  reply	other threads:[~2025-09-15 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-20  8:52 [PATCH] PCI: plda: Remove the use of dev_err_probe() Xichao Zhao
2025-09-08 10:13 ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2025-09-15 13:25   ` [External] : " ALOK TIWARI
2025-09-15 14:07     ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2025-09-15 19:10       ` ALOK TIWARI [this message]
2025-09-08 10:16 ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2025-09-12 22:09 ` Bjorn Helgaas

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