linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/4] gpio: acpi: Don't return 0 on acpi_gpio

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Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:42:51 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     "linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        Linux Input <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        platform-driver-x86 <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/4] gpio: acpi: Don't return 0 on acpi_gpio_count()

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> It's unusual to have error checking like (ret <= 0) in cases when
> counting GPIO resources. In case when it's mandatory we propagate the
> error (-ENOENT), otherwise we don't use the result.
>
> This makes consistent behaviour across all possible variants called in
> gpiod_count().
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>

Patch applied with Mika's ACK.

Yours,
Linus Walleij