Re: [PATCH v7 05/24] mfd: max77686: Return correct error when pdata isn't found

[Lee Jones]

On Fri, 04 Jul 2014, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:

> When platform data is not found an -EIO (I/O error) code is returned.
> This doesn't seem to be the correct error so better return -EINVAL
> (Invalid argument) which is what most drivers do in this case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/mfd/max77686.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied now, thanks.

> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/max77686.c b/drivers/mfd/max77686.c
> index 12d4c17..ada4976 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/max77686.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/max77686.c
> @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ static int max77686_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c,
>  
>  	if (!pdata) {
>  		dev_err(&i2c->dev, "No platform data found.\n");
> -		return -EIO;
> +		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  
>  	max77686 = devm_kzalloc(&i2c->dev,

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