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SubjectRe: [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: use appropiate error code
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Le 01/09/2023 à 20:03, Immad Mir a écrit :
>
> On 01/09/23 11:10 pm, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>>
>> Le 01/09/2023 à 19:19, mirimmad@outlook.com a écrit :
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>>> -1 is not a valid error code. This patch replaces it with -EPERM.
>> Can you explain how it will work ?
>> In scom_debug_init() rc is built by oring the value returned by
>> scom_debug_init_one().
>> What will be the result when oring some valid values with -EPERM ?
>> It was working well with -1 because when you or -1 with anything you get
>> -1 as result. But with your change I don't think it will work.
>
>
> if EPERM is not always necessarily equal to 1, we can put a check in
> scom_debug_init before returning rc. If it is less than 1 (because AFAIK
> or-ring with negative number results back into the same negative number)
> we set rc equal to -1.
>

The point is that EPERM is 1 by coincidence, the intention here is not
to return -EPERM but really -1, so by changing this you just make the
code harded to understand and maintain.

Christophe
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