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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
Cc: Sergey Suloev <ssuloev@orpaltech.com>,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>,
	linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] spi: core: handle timeout error from transfer_one()
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 11:42:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180404104252.GC7691@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180404070817.6cens44jvlmdaxtm@flea>

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On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 09:08:18AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:

> And I'm pretty sure that papering over an error returned by a driver
> is not the right thing to do.

We've got specific error handling for timeouts - they get accounted for
separately in the stats.  It *shouldn't* affect actual operation and
AFAICT it doesn't.  I think the main problem here is that the commit
message is very unclear.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-04 10:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-03 15:28 [PATCH v2 0/6] spi: Add support for DMA transfers in sun4i SPI driver Sergey Suloev
2018-04-03 15:29 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] spi: core: handle timeout error from transfer_one() Sergey Suloev
2018-04-03 15:52   ` Mark Brown
2018-04-03 16:00     ` Sergey Suloev
2018-04-03 16:18       ` Mark Brown
2018-04-03 16:24         ` Sergey Suloev
2018-04-04  7:08           ` Maxime Ripard
2018-04-04 10:42             ` Mark Brown [this message]
2018-04-04 19:19             ` Sergey Suloev
2018-04-03 15:29 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] spi: sun4i: restrict transfer length in PIO-mode Sergey Suloev
2018-04-04  7:10   ` Maxime Ripard
2018-04-03 15:29 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] spi: sun4i: coding style/readability improvements Sergey Suloev
2018-04-04  7:13   ` Maxime Ripard
2018-04-03 15:29 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] spi: sun4i: use completion provided by SPI core driver Sergey Suloev
2018-04-04  7:13   ` Maxime Ripard
2018-04-03 15:29 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] spi: sun4i: introduce register set/unset helpers Sergey Suloev
2018-04-04  7:14   ` Maxime Ripard
2018-04-03 15:29 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] spi: sun4i: add DMA transfers support Sergey Suloev

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