linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] regulator: Don't return or expect -errno from of_map

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Message-ID: <20180418164804.GJ10061@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:48:04 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Cc:     Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@...hile0.org>,
        David Collins <collinsd@...eaurora.org>,
        Evan Green <evgreen@...omium.org>, swboyd@...omium.org,
        linux-omap <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] regulator: Don't return or expect -errno from
 of_map_mode()

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 08:56:22AM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 12:15 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas

> >>         if (!of_property_read_u32(np, "regulator-initial-mode", &pval)) {
> >>                 if (desc && desc->of_map_mode) {
> >> -                       ret = desc->of_map_mode(pval);
> >> -                       if (ret == -EINVAL)
> >> +                       unsigned int mode = desc->of_map_mode(pval);

> > I think the convention is to always declare local variables at the
> > start of the function? Although I couldn't find anything in the coding
> > style document...

> I haven't seen this as a consistent kernel convention.  It seems a bit
> up to the subsystem and/or driver maintainer.  However, I'm happy to
> put it up at the top if it makes people happy.

It's *fairly* consistent (this is C code after all) - doing something
different usually has some form of motivation.  

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