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Message-ID: <539EBEBD.6080903@gaisler.com>
Date:	Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:54:05 +0200
From:	Andreas Larsson <andreas@...sler.com>
To:	Nikita Yushchenko <nyushchenko@....rtsoft.ru>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lugovskoy@....rtsoft.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/21] usb: use devm_irq_of_parse_and_map() where appropriate

On 2014-06-16 11:44, Nikita Yushchenko wrote:
>>> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-grlib.c
>>> b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-grlib.c
>>> index 495b6fb..666c03e 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-grlib.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-grlib.c
>>> @@ -111,11 +111,11 @@ static int ehci_hcd_grlib_probe(struct
>>> platform_device *op)
>>>        hcd->rsrc_start = res.start;
>>>        hcd->rsrc_len = resource_size(&res);
>>>
>>> -    irq = irq_of_parse_and_map(dn, 0);
>>> -    if (irq == NO_IRQ) {
>>> -        dev_err(&op->dev, "%s: irq_of_parse_and_map failed\n",
>>> +    irq = devm_irq_of_parse_and_map(&op->dev, dn, 0);
>>> +    if (irq <= 0) {
>>> +        dev_err(&op->dev, "%s: devm_irq_of_parse_and_map failed\n",
>>>                __FILE__);
>>> -        rv = -EBUSY;
>>> +        rv = irq ? irq : -EINVAL;
>>
>> Here and in more places below you change the return value from -EBUSY to
>> -EINVAL when irq == 0. These changes and the reason for them is not
>> something that is commented upon in the commit message. Maybe these
>> changes were not intended or should be in a separate patch?
>
> Although errno codes are quite unspecific, I can't think a valid reason
> to return -EBUSY on [devm_]irq_of_parse_and_map() failure. It could be
> -EINVAL or -ENODEV, but not -EBUSY ...
>
> Since changing line that sets error code anyway, I decided to change
> -EBUST to -ENODEV.
>
> But I agree that this is not the topic of the patch.
>
> IS it better to remove this change from changeset alltogether, or to
> mention it in commit's log message?

Given that there are a lot of -EBUSY being returned in drivers/usb/host 
- not just in these error cases, maybe it is better to not touch this in 
this patch set.

Best regards,
Andreas Larsson
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