linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] gpio: make gpiod

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Message-ID: <20170227082735.GA2373@mail.corp.redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:27:35 +0100
From:   Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        linux-input@...r.kernel.org, Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] gpio: make gpiod_count() API consistent

On Feb 20 2017 or thereabouts, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> There are three possibilities in gpiod_count(): ACPI, OF, and
> platform data.
> 
> Some of them return 0, which requires to be handled separately, though
> developers rather lazy and just shadow an actual error code.
> 
> Let's make this API consistent by not allowing 0 in returned value.
> 
> There are luckily only 3 users right now, one of them handles this
> properly, the rest is converted in this series.
> 
> Series is supposed to go through GPIO tree.
> 
> Andy Shevchenko (4):
>   gpio: acpi: Don't return 0 on acpi_gpio_count()
>   gpio: of: Don't return 0 on dt_gpio_count()
>   platform/x86: surface3_button: Propagate error from gpiod_count()
>   Input: soc_button_array - Propagate error from gpiod_count()

Not sure if this still matters, but still:
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>

Cheers,
Benjamin

> 
>  drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi.c            | 4 ++--
>  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c                 | 4 ++--
>  drivers/input/misc/soc_button_array.c  | 5 +++--
>  drivers/platform/x86/surface3_button.c | 5 +++--
>  4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.11.0
>