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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/2] mfd: arizona: Update reset pin to use GPIOD
On Wed, 07 Mar 2018, Charles Keepax wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 01:28:12PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Charles Keepax wrote:
> > > + if (IS_ERR(pdata->reset)) {
> > > + ret = PTR_ERR(pdata->reset);
> > > + switch (ret) {
> > > + case -ENOENT:
> > > + case -ENOSYS:
> > > + break;
> > > + case -EPROBE_DEFER:
> > > + return ret;
> > > + default:
> > > + dev_err(arizona->dev, "Reset GPIO malformed: %d\n",
> > > + ret);
> > > + break;
> > > + }
> >
> > I haven't seen a switch statement used in the error handling path
> > before. There is probably good reason for that.
> >
>
> There are a fair few of them "grep -rI "switch (ret)" | wc -l" ==
> 205. Although to be fair that has rarely been an argument in
> somethings favour.

I didn't say "it has never been done", just that I hadn't seen it.

Besides, 205 uses is a very small amount in kernel code:

`git grep "if (ret" | wc -l` == 74710

> > What is the 'default' case? -EINVAL?
> >
>
> I would guess most of the time yes, but I would rather not assume
> that. I can redo this as if's if you prefer it that way? The if is
> slightly less lines although I do think the switch is much
> clearer as to intent.
>
> if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER) {
> return ret;
> } else if (ret != -ENOENT && ret != -ENOSYS {
> dev_err(arizona->dev, ....);
> }

I don't know enough about the API to see why -ENOENT and -ENOSYS do
not deserve error messages.

What do the other users of the API do?

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