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Message-ID: <2023102403-clash-utmost-8377@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:10:16 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Crescent CY Hsieh <crescentcy.hsieh@...a.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-serial <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] tty: serial: 8250: Add support for MOXA PCIe
boards to switch interface between RS422/RS485
On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 03:48:07PM +0800, Crescent CY Hsieh wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 12:25:18PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Oct 2023, Crescent CY Hsieh wrote:
> > > + /*
> > > + * RS232 is not supported for MOXA PCIe boards with device IDs
> > > + * matching the pattern 0x*3**.
> > > + */
> > > + if (pci_moxa_match_second_digit(device, 0x0300))
> > > + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> >
> > This is not the correct error code I think. Maybe return -ENXIO instead.
>
> I think EOPNOTSUPP or ENOTSUPP would be more reasonable, they directly
> indicates "operation is not supported".
>
> However, EOPNOTSUPP is used for network-related and ENOTSUPP is used for
> NFSv3 protocol, even though they are already been used throughout the
> kernel.
>
> Maybe add a new one stand for serial, or clean them up into a general
> one, or use EOPNOTSUPP and ENOTSUPP just for now?
-ENODEV should be the proper one here.
thanks,
greg k-h
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