Hi, These patches are meant to improve how Intel MID detects error in its platform code. Currently it's ambiguous when platform code returns NULL due to error or due to lack of platform data in valid situations. With these patches, errors will be handled by ERR_PTR()/PTR_ERR() macros.
Br, David Cohen --- David Cohen (3): x86: intel-mid: sfi_handle_*_dev() should check for pdata error code x86: intel-mid: platform code should return error when failing x86: intel-mid: return proper error code from get_gpio_by_name() arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_emc1403.c | 6 ++++-- arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_gpio_keys.c | 2 +- arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_lis331.c | 6 ++++-- arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_max7315.c | 6 +++--- arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_mpu3050.c | 4 ++-- arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_msic_gpio.c | 2 +- arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_msic_ocd.c | 2 +- arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_pmic_gpio.c | 2 +- arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_tc35876x.c | 6 ++++++ arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/device_libs/platform_tca6416.c | 6 +++--- arch/x86/platform/intel-mid/sfi.c | 8 +++++++- 11 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) -- 1.8.4.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/