Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:10:47 +0800 | From | Shawn Guo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] serial/imx: propagate error from of_alias_get_id instead of using -ENODEV |
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 09:31:53PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 09:26:51PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > A quick look at of_alias_get_id shows that in the error case it returns > > -ENODEV, too, but still it's better style to propagate the value as is. > > > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> > > Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org> > > Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> > > Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> > > Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com> > > Cc: Jason Liu <jason.hui@linaro.org> > > Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> > > --- > > drivers/tty/serial/imx.c | 2 +- > > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c > > index 163fc90..75c159a 100644 > > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c > > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c > > @@ -1301,7 +1301,7 @@ static int serial_imx_probe_dt(struct imx_port *sport, > > ret = of_alias_get_id(np, "serial"); > > if (ret < 0) { > > dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to get alias id, errno %d\n", ret); > > - return -ENODEV; > > + return ret; > > } > > sport->port.line = ret; > > > One more comment on serial_imx_probe_dt: > > It is used as follows: > > ret = serial_imx_probe_dt(sport, pdev); > if (ret == -ENODEV) > serial_imx_probe_pdata(sport, pdev); > > IMHO you should distinguish here more carefully between the different > -ENODEV cases. It's OK to call serial_imx_probe_pdata() if > > !pdev->dev.of_node > > but if > > of_alias_get_id(np, "serial") > > returns an error isn't that something that should make the probing of > the device fail instead of relying on platform data and the device id > that are non-existant and more or less random respectively if the device > is instantiated by dt? > Yes, agreed. Care to send a fix for that too?
-- Regards, Shawn
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