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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: refactormyself@gmail.com
Cc: helgaas@kernel.org, bjorn@helgaas.com, skhan@linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>,
	dmaengine@vger.kernel.org,
	Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>,
	Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	esc.storagedev@microsemi.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>,
	Sam Bobroff <sbobroff@linux.ibm.com>,
	Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
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	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8 v2] PCI: Align return values of PCIe capability and PCI accessors
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 10:46:50 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200615134650.GA2030477@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200615073225.24061-1-refactormyself@gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 09:32:17AM +0200, refactormyself@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Bolarinwa Olayemi Saheed <refactormyself@gmail.com>
> 
> 
> PATCH 1/8 to 7/8:
> PCIBIOS_ error codes have positive values and they are passed down the
> call heirarchy from accessors. For functions which are meant to return
> only a negative value on failure, passing on this value is a bug.
> To mitigate this, call pcibios_err_to_errno() before passing on return
> value from PCIe capability accessors call heirarchy. This function
> converts any positive PCIBIOS_ error codes to negative generic error
> values.
> 
> PATCH 8/8:
> The PCIe capability accessors can return 0, -EINVAL, or any PCIBIOS_ error
> code. The pci accessor on the other hand can only return 0 or any PCIBIOS_
> error code.This inconsistency among these accessor makes it harder for
> callers to check for errors.
> Return PCIBIOS_BAD_REGISTER_NUMBER instead of -EINVAL in all PCIe
> capability accessors.
> 
> MERGING:
> These may all be merged via the PCI tree, since it is a collection of
> similar fixes. This way they all get merged at once.

I prefer this not happen for active trees, it just risks needless
merge conflicts.

I will take the hfi1 patches at least, let me know when they are
reviewed

Thanks,
Jason

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-15 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-15  7:32 [PATCH 0/8 v2] PCI: Align return values of PCIe capability and PCI accessors refactormyself
2020-06-15  7:32 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] IB/hfi1: Convert PCIBIOS_* errors to generic -E* errors refactormyself
2020-06-29 20:09   ` Dennis Dalessandro
2020-06-15  7:32 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] " refactormyself
2020-06-29 20:22   ` Dennis Dalessandro
2020-06-15 13:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2020-06-26 18:52 ` [PATCH 0/8 v2] PCI: Align return values of PCIe capability and PCI accessors Bjorn Helgaas
2020-06-30 16:24 ` Jason Gunthorpe

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