RE: [PATCH 1/2] pinctrl: mvebu: armada-37xx: use use platform api

[Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx>]

> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] pinctrl: mvebu: armada-37xx: use use platform api
> 
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 9:44 AM Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > -       nr_irq_parent = of_irq_count(np);
> > +       nr_irq_parent = platform_irq_count(pdev);
> > +       if (nr_irq_parent < 0) {
> > +               if (nr_irq_parent != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> > +                       dev_err(dev, "Couldn't determine irq
> count: %pe\n",
> > +                               ERR_PTR(nr_irq_parent));
> 
> Why do you return ERR_PTR(nr_irq_parent) instead of simply nr_irq_parent?

Please see:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/4/64

and the patch in tree:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/
commit/?id=cfdca14c44a79b9c9c491235a39b9fc1e520820b

Thanks,
Peng.