linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] lib/string: introduce match

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Message-ID: <1452262398.1342.4.camel@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 08 Jan 2016 16:13:18 +0200
From:	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] lib/string: introduce match_string() helper

On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 13:19 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 03:09:09PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > There are users of a simple string matching in the array. Let's do
> > a common
> > helper for that.
>  
> What's the reason for making it return -ENODATA when no match is
> found?

What else can be suitable?

> That one of the callers wants to return that as error in such case?
> At least one other is returning -EINVAL in the same situation...

Linus Acked this, maybe he missed that one.

Linus, do we still need to return -EINVAL in pinmux?

In general our error reporting sucks, you know. So, any return value
will be not ideal and self-explanatory (see json approach in perf). But
I prefer return some return code instead of opaque -1, for example.
This at least helps some users.

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy