Re: [PATCH 2/6] platform/x86/intel/tpmi: Don't create devices for disabled features

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Nov 30 2023 - 09:38:38 EST


On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 04:33:00PM +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2023, srinivas pandruvada wrote:
> > On Thu, 2023-11-30 at 14:26 +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2023, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:

...

> > > > +       if (!feature_state.enabled)
> > > > +               return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > >
> > > -ENODEV sounds more appropriate. 
> >
> > The -EOPNOTSUPP is returned matching the next return statement, which
> > causes to continue to create devices which are supported and not
> > disabled. Any other error is real device creation will causes driver
> > modprobe to fail.
>
> Oh, I see... I didn't look that deep into the code during my review
> (perhaps note that down into the commit message?).

Maybe we should even use -ENOTSUPP (Linux internal error code), so
it will be clear that it's _not_ going to user space?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko