[PATCH 1/4] regmap: sdw: move to -EOPNOTSUPP

[Vinod Koul]

On 26-08-20, 12:22, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 12:13:01 +0200,
> Mark Brown wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:09:28PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > Mark Brown wrote:
> > 
> > > > checkpatch is broken.
> > 
> > > Heh, I'm not objecting it :)
> > 
> > > OTOH, it's also true that ENOTSUPP is no good error code if returned
> > > to user-space.  Unfortunately many codes (including what I wrote) use
> > > this code mistakenly, and they can't be changed any longer...
> > 
> > It's also used internally in various places without being returned to
> > userspace, that's what's going on here - the regmap core has some
> > specific checks for -ENOTSUPP.
> 
> Sure, for such an internal usage any code can be used.
> The question is a case like this -- where the return code might be
> carried to outside.  Though, looking through the grep output, all
> callers simply return -EINVAL for any errors, so it doesn't matter
> much for now.
> 
> 
> BTW, there are a few callers of devm_regmap_init_sdw() checking the
> return value with NULL.  This will crash as the function returns the
> error pointer, and they must be checked with IS_ERR() instead.

Yes that is correct, all expect wsa codec do the incorrect thing. Will
send patches for these shortly

Thanks
-- 
~Vinod