From: Dan Scally <djrscally@gmail.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, robh@kernel.org,
jorhand@linux.microsoft.com, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kitakar@gmail.com, sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com,
bingbu.cao@intel.com, mchehab@kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
tian.shu.qiu@intel.com, yong.zhi@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Add bridge driver to connect sensors to CIO2 device via software nodes on ACPI platforms
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 11:24:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36d3322a-3128-83b8-bd14-72da34b71e7c@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200917101538.GO4282@kadam>
On 17/09/2020 11:15, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:47:50AM +0100, Dan Scally wrote:
>> Hi Greg - thanks for the comments, appreciate it (sorry there's so many,
>> I'm new to both C and kernel work)
> It's pretty impressive work if you're new to C...
Thanks (and for your other reply too, haven't had time to go through it
in depth yet). I've been using python for a while, but this is my first
attempt at anything serious with C.
>>>> + return;
>>> No error value?
>> The prototype for sync_state callbacks is to return void, so my
>> understanding is it can't return an error value. I guess a better thing
>> to do might be call another function performing cleanup and unloading
>> the driver before the return or something along those lines though.
> Yeah. I suspect you should be using a different callback instead of
> ->sync_state() but I don't know what... :/
Yeah, this is why I wanted to submit it now really; I too suspect I
should really be using a different callback but I couldn't find a better
option.
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-17 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-16 21:36 [RFC PATCH] Add bridge driver to connect sensors to CIO2 device via software nodes on ACPI platforms Daniel Scally
2020-09-17 7:53 ` Greg KH
2020-09-17 9:47 ` Dan Scally
2020-09-17 10:15 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-09-17 10:24 ` Dan Scally [this message]
2020-09-17 13:28 ` Kieran Bingham
2020-09-17 14:08 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-17 14:19 ` Kieran Bingham
2020-09-17 14:36 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-17 9:34 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-09-17 10:19 ` Joe Perches
2020-09-18 22:50 ` Dan Scally
2020-09-17 10:33 ` Sakari Ailus
2020-09-17 10:49 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-09-17 12:25 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-17 13:15 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-09-18 6:40 ` Sakari Ailus
2020-09-18 8:16 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-09-17 10:52 ` Dan Scally
2020-09-17 12:45 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-17 13:36 ` Dan Scally
2020-09-17 14:14 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-17 21:25 ` Daniel Scally
2020-09-17 14:44 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-18 7:51 ` Sakari Ailus
2020-09-18 13:07 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-21 13:33 ` Dan Scally
2020-09-21 14:33 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-23 9:39 ` Dan Scally
2020-09-28 11:37 ` Dan Scally
2020-09-18 8:03 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-09-18 8:09 ` Dan Scally
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