Re: [PATCH] sata_rcar: fix error return code in sata_rcar_probe()

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Fri Jun 30 2017 - 15:42:27 EST


On 06/30/2017 10:36 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:

> Print error message and propagate the return value of
> platform_get_irq on failure.

You should have probably mentioned that this function no longer returns 0
on error.

Yeah, the patches looks good to me but I'd really appreciate more
context in the changelogs. Gustavo, can you please respin the
patches?


Absolutely.

What do you think about the following changelog:

platform_get_irq() returns an error code, but the sata_rcar driver
ignores it and always returns -EINVAL. This is not correct, and

This *was* correct, because it prevented returning 0 on error.

prevents -EPROBE_DEFER from being propagated properly.

Yes, this is a real problem.

Print error message and propagate the return value of platform_get_irq
on failure. Also, with this change function sata_rcar_probe() no longer
returns 0 on error.

It never did -- I was talking about platform_get_irq() which might return 0 on error until I fixed it:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e330b9a6bb35dc7097a4f02cb1ae7b6f96df92af

Thank you!

MBR, Sergei