Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] gpio: make gpiod_count() API consistent

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Tue Mar 14 2017 - 05:49:49 EST


On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 09:27 +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
>> On Feb 20 2017 or thereabouts, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> > There are three possibilities in gpiod_count(): ACPI, OF, and
>> > platform data.
>> >
>> > Some of them return 0, which requires to be handled separately,
>> > though
>> > developers rather lazy and just shadow an actual error code.
>> >
>> > Let's make this API consistent by not allowing 0 in returned value.
>> >
>> > There are luckily only 3 users right now, one of them handles this
>> > properly, the rest is converted in this series.
>> >
>> > Series is supposed to go through GPIO tree.
>> >
>> > Andy Shevchenko (4):
>> > gpio: acpi: Don't return 0 on acpi_gpio_count()
>> > gpio: of: Don't return 0 on dt_gpio_count()
>> > platform/x86: surface3_button: Propagate error from gpiod_count()
>> > Input: soc_button_array - Propagate error from gpiod_count()
>>
>> Not sure if this still matters, but still:
>> Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I'm sure it is.
>
> Linus, is your plan to go through queue after merge window is closed?

Yes sorry for the delay, it was a busy merge window etc.

I'd like to have some nod from Mika/Rafael that this is what
we want to do. If I don't hear anything I guess I will just
merge them, it looks right to me.

Yours,
Linus Walleij