Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] fpga: socfpga-a10: Fix incorrect return value of devm_regmap_init_mmio

From: Xu Yilun
Date: Tue Jul 11 2023 - 21:44:22 EST


On 2023-07-10 at 16:11:35 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 09:38:30PM +0800, Yangtao Li wrote:
> > When devm_regmap_init_mmio fails, we should return PTR_ERR(priv->regmap)
> > instead of -ENODEV.
> >
> > Fixes: acbb910ae04b ("fpga-manager: Add Socfpga Arria10 support")
>
> Why are you not also including a cc: stable@ tag here?

The change is to propagate the error number produced by regmap, instead
of using a fixed error number.

I think this is more of an improvement, not a bug fix. So no need to
merge to stable? And the changelog should be improved to avoid
confusing.

Thanks,
Yilun

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h