On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 08:07:45AM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 11:57:48AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 08:27:39PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 12:06:58AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 01:15:08PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > @@ -735,25 +738,16 @@ static int tegra_kbc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > > > > > spin_lock_init(&kbc->lock); > > > > > setup_timer(&kbc->timer, tegra_kbc_keypress_timer, (unsigned long)kbc); > > > > > > > > > > - res = request_mem_region(res->start, resource_size(res), pdev->name); > > > > > - if (!res) { > > > > > - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to request I/O memory\n"); > > > > > - err = -EBUSY; > > > > > - goto err_free_mem; > > > > > - } > > > > > - > > > > > - kbc->mmio = ioremap(res->start, resource_size(res)); > > > > > + kbc->mmio = devm_request_and_ioremap(&pdev->dev, res); > > > > > if (!kbc->mmio) { > > > > > - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to remap I/O memory\n"); > > > > > - err = -ENXIO; > > > > > - goto err_free_mem_region; > > > > > + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Cannot request memregion/iomap address\n"); > > > > > + return -EADDRNOTAVAIL; > > > > > > > > Erm, no, -EBUSY please. > > > > > > EADDRNOTAVAIL is the canonical error for devm_request_and_ioremap() > > > failure. The kerneldoc comment in lib/devres.c even gives a short > > > example that uses this error code. > > > > I am sorry, but I do not consider a function that was added a little > > over a year ago as a canon. If you look at the uses of EADDRNOTAVAIL it > > is used predominantly in networking code to indicate that attempted > > _network_ address is not available. > > EBUSY might be misleading, though. devm_request_and_ioremap() can fail > in both the request_mem_region() and ioremap() calls. Furthermore it'd > be good to settle on a consistent error-code instead of doing it > differently depending on subsystem and/or driver. Currently the various > error codes used are: > > EBUSY, EADDRNOTAVAIL, ENXIO, ENOMEM, ENODEV, ENOENT, EINVAL, > EIO, EFAULT, EADDRINUSE > > Also if we can settle on one error code we should follow up with a patch > to make it consistent across the tree and also update that kerneldoc > comment. I volunteer to do that if nobody else steps up. I'm also Cc'ing > Wolfram (the original author), maybe he has some thoughts on this. > If you going to change all drivers make devm_request_and_ioremap() return ERR_PTR()-encoded errors and then we can differentiate what part of it failed. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html