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From: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd: arizona: Add sensible return value to some error paths
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:13:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160831091305.GA21682@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160831084327.GA27357@dell>

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 09:43:27AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Charles Keepax wrote:
> 
> > There are some cases in arizona_dev_init, such as where we don't
> > recognise the chip ID, in which we head to the error path without
> > setting a sensible error code in ret. This would lead to the chip
> > silently failing probe, as it would still return 0. Fix this up by
> > adding appropriate sets of the return value.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mfd/arizona-core.c | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/arizona-core.c b/drivers/mfd/arizona-core.c
> > index e4f97b3..34a2c26 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mfd/arizona-core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mfd/arizona-core.c
> > @@ -1121,6 +1121,7 @@ int arizona_dev_init(struct arizona *arizona)
> >  		break;
> >  	default:
> >  		dev_err(arizona->dev, "Unknown device ID: %x\n", reg);
> > +		ret = -EINVAL;
> 
> -EINVAL doesn't seem right here.
> 
> -ENODEV perhaps?
> 

Yeah that does seem better, I will fire out another version.

Thanks,
Charles

      reply	other threads:[~2016-08-31  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-12  9:27 [PATCH] mfd: arizona: Add sensible return value to some error paths Charles Keepax
2016-08-31  8:43 ` Lee Jones
2016-08-31  9:13   ` Charles Keepax [this message]

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