Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] platform/chrome: cros_ec_proto: Convert EC error codes to Linux error codes

[Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com>]

Dear all,

On 22/8/20 17:08, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> The EC reports a variety of error codes. Most of those, with the exception
> of EC_RES_INVALID_VERSION, are converted to -EPROTO. As result, the actual
> error code gets lost. In cros_ec_cmd_xfer_status(), convert all EC errors
> to Linux error codes to report a more meaningful error to the caller to aid
> debugging.
> 
> To prepare for this change, handle error codes other than -EPROTO for all
> callers of cros_ec_cmd_xfer_status(). Specifically, no longer assume that
> -EPROTO reflects an error from the EC and all other error codes reflect a
> transfer error.
> 
> v2: Add patches 1/4 to 3/4 to handle callers of cros_ec_cmd_xfer_status()
> v3: Add patches 4/6 and 5/6 to handle additional callers of
> 	cros_ec_cmd_xfer_status()
>     Use -ENOPROTOOPT for EC_RES_INVALID_VERSION
>     Implement function to convert error codes
> v4: Add coments describing the functionality of cros_ec_num_pwms().
>     Add patch 7/7 to clean up cros_ec_num_pwms() after the new error code
>     support has been implemented.
>     Rebased series to v5.8.
> v5: If there is no error, cros_ec_cmd_xfer_status() needs to return the
>     number of received bytes, not 0. While fixing that (in patch 6/7),
>     rearranged the function to reduce its indentation.
>     Rebased series to v5.9-rc1
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Guenter Roeck (7):
>       iio: cros_ec: Accept -EOPNOTSUPP as 'not supported' error code
>       cros_ec_lightbar: Accept more error codes from cros_ec_cmd_xfer_status
>       platform/chrome: cros_ec_sysfs: Report range of error codes from EC
>       pwm: cros-ec: Accept more error codes from cros_ec_cmd_xfer_status
>       platform/input: cros_ec: Replace -ENOTSUPP with -ENOPROTOOPT
>       platform/chrome: cros_ec_proto: Convert EC error codes to Linux error codes
>       pwm: cros-ec: Simplify EC error handling
> 
>  .../iio/common/cros_ec_sensors/cros_ec_sensors.c   |  2 +-
>  drivers/input/keyboard/cros_ec_keyb.c              |  2 +-
>  drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_lightbar.c         | 10 ++--
>  drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_proto.c            | 57 +++++++++++++++++-----
>  drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_sysfs.c            | 24 ++++-----
>  drivers/pwm/pwm-cros-ec.c                          | 37 +++++++-------
>  6 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
> 

I applied all the patches and queued for 5.10 in the chrome-platform tree. If at
some point we need to create an immutable branch I can provide it.

Thanks,
 Enric