Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:46:23 +0200 | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 05/13] i2c: acpi: Return error pointers from i2c_acpi_new_device() |
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 01:49:53PM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:16:25AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > > One problem is that i2c_new_device() currently simply returns NULL on all > > errors. Andy, you could take a look how much work it is to make that return > > an ERR_PTR too, or just check its return value and return ERR_PTR(-ENXIO) if > > it fails for now... > > I would use -ENODEV here and -EINVAL in case there is no ACPI companion :)
Sounds more traditional than ENXIO. I would go the way Mika proposed if there is no objection.
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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