Re: [PATCH] iio: gts-helper: fix error headers

[Matti Vaittinen]

On 15/08/2026 01:23, Javier Carrasco wrote:
> Both industrialio-gts-helper.c and iio-gts-helper.h use error codes
> defined in <asm-generic/errno-base.h> (usually included via
> <linux/errno.h>), but only industrialio-gts-helper.c includes it. On the
> other hand, that file also uses error macros like IS_ERR() and
> PTR_ERR(), which are included in <linux/err.h>.
>
> Add the right includes to provide the used elements from the error
> headers:
>
> - <linux/errno.h> in iio-gts-helper.h
>
> - <linux/err.h> in industrialio-gts-helper.c, which in turn includes
>    <asm/errno.h>, which only includes <asm-generic/errno-base.h>
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco.cruz@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I stumbled upon this while refactoring veml6031x00.c
> (which uses IIO GTS) just because clangd threw a couple of errors where
> -EINVAL is returned in iio-gts-helper.h
>
> In the end everything compiles anyway, and therefore I have not
> added a "Fixes:" tag, but please let me know if that is really required
> for something like this. It is also true that if the gts header is
> included first, the compiler will throw the same error clangd showed me
> and the kernel won't compile... Unlikely to ever happen, though.

Unlikely or not, this sounds like an error to me. Hence, I don't think a 
fixes-tag would be wrong either.

Anyways - thanks!

Reviewed-by: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@xxxxxxxxx>

> I have compiled and tested this implementation with the driver I am
> attempting to upstream without any issues.
> ---
>   drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c | 2 +-
>   include/linux/iio/iio-gts-helper.h    | 1 +
>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c
> index 4f52dc373abf..af6ed37fb34a 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
>    */
>   
>   #include <linux/device.h>
> -#include <linux/errno.h>
> +#include <linux/err.h>
>   #include <linux/export.h>
>   #include <linux/minmax.h>
>   #include <linux/module.h>
> diff --git a/include/linux/iio/iio-gts-helper.h b/include/linux/iio/iio-gts-helper.h
> index 66f830ab9b49..f63a482b82b8 100644
> --- a/include/linux/iio/iio-gts-helper.h
> +++ b/include/linux/iio/iio-gts-helper.h
> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
>   #ifndef __IIO_GTS_HELPER__
>   #define __IIO_GTS_HELPER__
>   
> +#include <linux/errno.h>
>   #include <linux/types.h>
>   
>   struct device;
>
> ---
> base-commit: dc59e4fea9d83f03bad6bddf3fa2e52491777482
> change-id: 20260814-iio-gts-err-headers-d7ecb6b5ebb7
>
> Best regards,


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Matti Vaittinen
Linux kernel developer at ROHM Semiconductors
Oulu Finland

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