Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: add pinctrl_register_reason() to return proper error code

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Mon Jun 08 2015 - 09:36:19 EST


On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If nobody is opposed to this, I can send a single big patch
> replacing all the references.
>
> In that case, we would not need _strict().

Yeah just do this.

> My concern is the sudden change of the function interface
> will break drivers that are under development out of the source tree.

Base the patch on my -devel branch so you cover all driver in
development. I will deal with any resulting mess.

Out of tree drivers we do not take into account, they should focus
their efforts on working upstream.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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