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

[Gustavo A. R. Silva]

Quoting Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On 06/30/2017 10:46 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
> > > prevents -EPROBE_DEFER from being propagated properly.
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Errata, this would be final the chagelog:
> >
> > platform_get_irq() returns an error code, but the sata_rcar driver
> > ignores it and always returns -EINVAL. This is not correct, and
> > prevents -EPROBE_DEFER from being propagated properly. Also,
> > notice that platform_get_irq() no longer returns 0 on error.
> >
> > Print error message and propagate the return value of platform_get_irq
> > on failure.
>
>    Now I'm OK with that.

Great :)

Thank you
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Gustavo A. R. Silva