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

From: Jonathan Cameron

Date: Tue Aug 18 2026 - 21:07:27 EST


On Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:03:53 +0300
Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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>
>

Applied (without fixes tag - not known to be a problem right now and these
sort of things are really common) to the testing branch of iio.git

Thanks,

Jonathan

> >
> > 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,
>
>