Re: [PATCH v2 05/13] i2c: acpi: Return error pointers from i2c_acpi_new_device()

From: Hans de Goede
Date: Tue Nov 27 2018 - 10:24:49 EST


Hi,

On 27-11-18 14:46, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
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.

Works for me, go for it.

Regards,

Han