linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: iio: ad7816: Switch to the gpio descriptor interface

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Date:   Wed, 17 Oct 2018 20:13:09 +0530
From:   Nishad Kamdar <nishadkamdar@...il.com>
To:     Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
Cc:     Michael Hennerich <Michael.Hennerich@...log.com>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
        Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: iio: ad7816: Switch to the gpio descriptor
 interface

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 05:10:14PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 10/16/2018 04:46 PM, Nishad Kamdar wrote:
> > Use the gpiod interface for rdwr_pin, convert_pin and busy_pin
> > instead of the deprecated old non-descriptor interface.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nishad Kamdar <nishadkamdar@...il.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the patch, this looks good.
> 
> One thing about the error messages though.
> 
> > +	chip->rdwr_pin = devm_gpiod_get(&spi_dev->dev, "rdwr", GPIOD_IN);
> > +	if (IS_ERR(chip->rdwr_pin)) {
> > +		ret = PTR_ERR(chip->rdwr_pin);
> >  		dev_err(&spi_dev->dev, "Fail to request rdwr gpio PIN %d.\n",
> > -			chip->rdwr_pin);
> > +			ret);
> 
> This previously showed the pin number which has now been replaced with the
> error code. The message doesn't make that much sense semantically anymore.
> Maybe replace it with something like
> 
> 	"Failed to request rdwr GPIO: %d\n", ret
> 
> >  		return ret;

Hello,

Ok, I'll do that.

Thanks for the review.

regards,
Nishad