Re: [PATCH v8 2/3] pinctrl: pinctrl-microchip-sgpio: Add pinctrl driver for Microsemi Serial GPIO

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Nov 11 2020 - 06:25:34 EST


On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 10:52 AM Lars Povlsen
<lars.povlsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andy Shevchenko writes:
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 5:51 PM Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 3:27 PM Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...

> >> >> + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> >> >
> >> > Are you sure? IIRC internally we are using ENOTSUPP.
> >> >
> >> > Couple of drivers seem to be wrongly using the other one.
> >>
> >> Checkpatch complains about ENOTSUPP:
> >>
> >> # ENOTSUPP is not a standard error code and should be avoided in new patches.
> >> # Folks usually mean EOPNOTSUPP (also called ENOTSUP), when they type ENOTSUPP.
> >
> > checkpatch is wrong if this is internal code and to me sounds like
> > it's not going out of the kernel.
> >
> > ...
>
> As it appears there are different opinions on this I'll let the pinctrl
> maintainer decide.

There are no other opinions.
Read description of struct pinconf_ops and fix the code.
checkpatch is simply wrong here.

> >> >> + err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> >> >
> >> > Ditto.
> >>
> >> Ditto.
> >
> > Ditto.


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko