On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 01:49:53PM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:16:25AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > > One problem is that i2c_new_device() currently simply returns NULL on all > > errors. Andy, you could take a look how much work it is to make that return > > an ERR_PTR too, or just check its return value and return ERR_PTR(-ENXIO) if > > it fails for now... > > I would use -ENODEV here and -EINVAL in case there is no ACPI companion :)
Sounds more traditional than ENXIO. I would go the way Mika proposed if there is no objection. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
