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

[Andy Shevchenko]

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.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko