linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] driver core: platform: Add an error message to platform_get

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Message-ID: <154653631992.15366.980047163353936345@swboyd.mtv.corp.google.com>
Date:   Thu, 03 Jan 2019 09:25:19 -0800
From:   Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        javierm@...hat.com,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] driver core: platform: Add an error message to platform_get_irq*()

Quoting Rafael J. Wysocki (2019-01-03 09:22:56)
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 5:12 PM Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org> wrote:
> >
> > I don't see much benefit to seeing -ENXIO or -EINVAL printed here, so I
> > left out the error code.
> 
> OK, so the value of the message is to tell the user that some driver
> asked for an invalid IRQ, right?

Yes.