Re: [PATCH 02/13] mfd: pm8008: fix regmap irq chip initialisation

[Andy Shevchenko]

Thu, May 09, 2024 at 10:49:28AM +0200, Johan Hovold kirjoitti:
> On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 08:16:45PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 6:01 PM Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 09:56:05PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > Mon, May 06, 2024 at 05:08:19PM +0200, Johan Hovold kirjoitti:
> > > > > The regmap irq array is potentially shared between multiple PMICs and

..

> > > > > -                   dev_err(dev, "Failed to probe irq periphs: %d\n", rc);
> > > > > +                   dev_err(dev, "failed to add IRQ chip: %d\n", rc);
> > > >
> > > > dev_err_probe(...); ?
> > >
> > > This function won't return -EPROBE_DEFER,
> > 
> > This is not an argument for a long time (since documentation of
> > dev_err_probe() had been amended to encourage its use for any error
> > cases in probe).
> 
> There was apparently a kernel doc update made in December 2023:
> 
> 	532888a59505 ("driver core: Better advertise dev_err_probe()")
> 
> to clarify that people are *allowed* to use it also for functions not
> returning -EPROBE_DEFER. That's hardly a long time ago and, importantly,
> this is of course still nothing that is *required*.

Fair enough.

> > > and that would be a separate
> > > change in any case.
> > 
> > Sure, but why to add a technical debt? Perhaps a precursor cleanup patch?
> 
> This is not in any way technical debt.

OK.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko