linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i2c: exynos5: fix platform_get

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Date:   Wed, 28 Oct 2020 08:21:54 +0100
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
To:     Martin Kaiser <martin@...ser.cx>
Cc:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org>, Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>,
        linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: exynos5: fix platform_get_irq error handling

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:42:57PM +0100, Martin Kaiser wrote:
> platform_get_irq already prints an error message if the requested irq
> was not found. Don't print another message in the driver.
> 
> If platform_get_irq returns an error, relay this error to the caller of the
> probe function. Don't change all errors to -EINVAL. This breaks the case
> where platform_get_irq returns -EPROBE_DEFER.
> 
> platform_get_irq never returns 0. Don't check for this. Make it clear that
> the error path always returns a negative error code.

These should be three separate commits.

Best regards,
Krzysztof