Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] gpio: dwapb: add gpio-signaled acpi event support

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Apr 15 2016 - 03:40:16 EST


On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 08:43:22PM +0800, Jiang Qiu wrote:
>> > Currently it just complains if something goes wrong. The GPIO driver
>> > itself can still work just fine (including interrupts).
>> >
>> > I'm fine to change it to return an error code.
>> Agree, if add a error code for acpi_gpiochip_request_interrupts(), it looks more pretty.
>>
>> However, this function is common for other part, maybe cause any other effects if I
>> do this change, did you think so?
>
> I'm thinking what the callers are going to do with the error code.
> Basically it means that we were not able to attach and configure ACPI
> event GPIOs. It does not prevent GPIO drivers from functioning so they
> probably just print out some warning message and continue probing, and
> we already warn in acpi_gpiochip_request_interrupts() if something fails.
>
> Unless Linus W insists, let's just keep it as is for now :)

I'm fine with it, don' worry.

I'm just waiting for this patch set to mature so I can apply
it.

Yours,
Linus Walleij