Re: GPIO: Fix probe() error return in gpio driver probes

From: Jean Delvare
Date: Mon Dec 15 2008 - 02:46:56 EST


On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:11:17 -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?

-EINVAL sounds right to me, all that's really missing is dev_dbg()
messages in the drivers to log what the exact problem was.

> I have no issue with the patch other than that.

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Jean Delvare
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