Re: GPIO: Fix probe() error return in gpio driver probes

From: David Brownell
Date: Sun Dec 14 2008 - 19:11:30 EST


On Sunday 14 December 2008, Ben Dooks wrote:
> Has anyone reveiwed this patch? Are there any comments, or can this
> be commited at somepoint (even if it is during the next merge window)?

I was thinking that -EINVAL is almost the least informative
diagnostic code possible, since so many places return it
that it's usually hard to find out *which* invalid parameter
triggered ...

Is there a less-overloaded code you could return?

I have no issue with the patch other than that.

- Dave
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