[PATCH] pinctrl: make pinctrl_register() return proper error code
Sören Brinkmann
soren.brinkmann at xilinx.com
Tue Jun 9 08:48:21 PDT 2015
On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 01:01PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Currently, pinctrl_register() just returns NULL on error, so the
> callers can not know the exact reason of the failure.
>
> Some of the pinctrl drivers return -EINVAL, some -ENODEV, and some
> -ENOMEM on error of pinctrl_register(), although the error code
> might be different from the real cause of the error.
>
> This commit reworks pinctrl_register() to return the appropriate
> error code and modifies all of the pinctrl drivers to use IS_ERR()
> for the error checking and PTR_ERR() for getting the error code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
> ---
>
> This patch is based on linux-pinctrl/devel
> (Commit 7164873e7c69d6bab74726debc3b495a86332b1f).
>
> I think I converted all of the pinctrl drivers, but just in case,
> I'd like the driver maintainers to check this patch out.
>
For
> drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-zynq.c | 4 ++--
Acked-by: Sören Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann at xilinx.com>
Sören
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