Re: [PATCH 0/8] iio: Improve error reporting for problems during .remove for various i2c drivers

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On Sun, 15 May 2022 18:05:22 +0100
Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 15 May 2022 17:59:21 +0200
> Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > the goal of this series is to improve the error messages emitted by
> > remove callbacks by several i2c drivers. The status quo is that these
> > might return an error code silently to the i2c core on remove. The
> > effect is a very unhelpful message:
> > 
> > 	$bus $device: remove failed (EIO), will be ignored
> > 
> > . Note there is no further error handling and the device will be
> > removed, all devm cleanups are called.
> > 
> > With the patches from this series applied the emitted message better
> > tells what actually failed and the remove callback returns zero
> > unconditionally.
> > 
> > The motivation for this change is to make i2c remove callbacks return
> > void. The ability to return a value is misleading as driver authors
> > might expect some kind of error handling from the i2c core.  
> 
> All look good to me, but I'll leave them on list for a little while
> to let others take a look.  Give me a poke if I seem to have lost them
> (it's been known to happen :( )

Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out for now as testing.

Very unlikely these will make this cycle unless there is a delay for
some reason.  Hence queued up for 5.20 and I may not push out for next to
pick up until merge window has mostly gone by.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> > 
> > Best regards
> > Uwe
> > 
> > Uwe Kleine-König (8):
> >   iio:adc:ina2xx: Improve error reporting for problems during .remove()
> >   iio:adc:ti-ads1015: Improve error reporting for problems during
> >     .remove()
> >   iio:chemical:atlas: Improve error reporting for problems during
> >     .remove()
> >   iio:chemical:ccs811: Improve error reporting for problems during
> >     .remove()
> >   iio:light:pa12203001: Improve error reporting for problems during
> >     .remove()
> >   iio:light:us5182d: Improve error reporting for problems during
> >     .remove()
> >   iio:light:vcnl4000: Improve error reporting for problems during
> >     .remove()
> >   iio:light:vcnl4035: Improve error reporting for problems during
> >     .remove()
> > 
> >  drivers/iio/adc/ina2xx-adc.c        | 10 ++++++++--
> >  drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads1015.c        |  8 +++++++-
> >  drivers/iio/chemical/atlas-sensor.c |  8 +++++++-
> >  drivers/iio/chemical/ccs811.c       | 10 ++++++++--
> >  drivers/iio/light/pa12203001.c      |  8 +++++++-
> >  drivers/iio/light/us5182d.c         |  8 +++++++-
> >  drivers/iio/light/vcnl4000.c        |  8 +++++++-
> >  drivers/iio/light/vcnl4035.c        | 10 ++++++++--
> >  8 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> > 
> > 
> > base-commit: 3123109284176b1532874591f7c81f3837bbdc17  
> 





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