linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] platform/chrome: cros_ec_proto: Convert EC error codes to Linux error codes

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Date:   Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:31:17 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
Cc:     Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@...labora.com>,
        Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Yu-Hsuan Hsu <yuhsuan@...omium.org>,
        Prashant Malani <pmalani@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] platform/chrome: cros_ec_proto: Convert EC error
 codes to Linux error codes

Hi Brian,

On 7/22/20 3:03 PM, Brian Norris wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 01:22:39PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> The EC reports a variety of error codes. Most of those, with the exception
>> of EC_RES_INVALID_VERSION, are converted to -EPROTO. As result, the actual
>> error code gets lost. In cros_ec_cmd_xfer_status(), convert all EC errors
>> to Linux error codes to report a more meaningful error to the caller to aid
>> debugging.
>>
>> To prepare for this change, handle error codes other than -EPROTO for all
>> callers of cros_ec_cmd_xfer_status(). Specifically, no longer assume that
>> -EPROTO reflects an error from the EC and all other error codes reflect a
>> transfer error.
>>
>> v2: Add patches 1/4 to 3/4 to handle callers of cros_ec_cmd_xfer_status()
> 
> I did a rough grep to see what you might be missing:
> 
>   git grep -n EPROTO | grep -e cros -e '-ec'
> 
> I think cros-ec-pwm / cros_ec_num_pwms() might need fixing too? Boy, I

Yes, you are correct. And there was me thinking I got them all. Thanks a lot !

> wrote that, but it sure ain't easy to read...(*checks watch*)...4 years
> later.
> 
Usually I am quite embarrassed by code I wrote more than a couple of years
ago :-)

> Apart from the notes already made, I think the series looks good:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
> > Feel free to CC me on v3, if you want another look
> 
I'll be happy to do that. I did make a couple of changes, so I'll add
your Reviewed-by: only to unchanged patches.

Thanks,
Guenter