Re: [spi-devel-general] [PATCH] spi: driver for the SynopsysDesignWare SPI controller

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jun 03 2009 - 17:23:31 EST


On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 09:27:56PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 2009/5/31 Baruch Siach <baruch@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> >> > +       r = platform_get_resource(dev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> >> > +       if (r == NULL) {
> >> > +               ret = -ENODEV;
> >>
> >> -ENOENT
> >
> > A quick search in the drivers tree showed no -ENOENT in this situation. Of the
> > 10 first results of grep -ENODEV is the most popular as follows:
> [The other: 3x -EINVAL one -ENXIO]
>
> Wowsers! And I felt -ENOENT was so intuitive, well if I'm going against
> common practice, no good. So let's ask the maintainer of the platform bus
> what shall be returned in this situation:
>
> Greg (or some other wise person from linux-kernel) what would you return if
> platform_get_resource() returns NULL for an expected resource?

I really have no idea, sorry.

Pick something :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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