[PATCH v8 2/3] pinctrl: pinctrl-microchip-sgpio: Add pinctrl driver for Microsemi Serial GPIO

Lars Povlsen lars.povlsen at microchip.com
Wed Nov 11 06:53:35 EST 2020


Andy Shevchenko writes:

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 10:52 AM Lars Povlsen
> <lars.povlsen at microchip.com> wrote:
>> Andy Shevchenko writes:
>> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 5:51 PM Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen at microchip.com> wrote:
>> >> > On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 3:27 PM Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen at microchip.com> wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> >> >> +               return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>> >> >
>> >> > Are you sure? IIRC internally we are using ENOTSUPP.
>> >> >
>> >> > Couple of drivers seem to be wrongly using the other one.
>> >>
>> >> Checkpatch complains about ENOTSUPP:
>> >>
>> >> # ENOTSUPP is not a standard error code and should be avoided in new patches.
>> >> # Folks usually mean EOPNOTSUPP (also called ENOTSUP), when they type ENOTSUPP.
>> >
>> > checkpatch is wrong if this is internal code and to me sounds like
>> > it's not going out of the kernel.
>> >
>> > ...
>>
>> As it appears there are different opinions on this I'll let the pinctrl
>> maintainer decide.
>
> There are no other opinions.
> Read description of struct pinconf_ops and fix the code.
> checkpatch is simply wrong here.

Lets no start a war :-) - I'll change it...

>
>> >> >> +                       err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
>> >> >
>> >> > Ditto.
>> >>
>> >> Ditto.
>> >
>> > Ditto.

Cheers,

---Lars

-- 
Lars Povlsen,
Microchip



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