[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] drm/i915: fix wrong error number report

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Oct 2 12:38:40 UTC 2018


Quoting Chris Wilson (2018-10-02 12:18:49)
> Quoting Andi Shyti (2018-10-02 10:20:47)
> > During driver load it's considered that the i915_driver_create()
> > function fails only in case of insufficient memory. Indeed, in
> > case of failure of i915_driver_create(), the load function
> > returns indiscriminately -ENOMEM ignoring the real cause of
> > failure.
> 
> Though if it is not ENOMEM, some stern words will be addressed to
> whomever at fault.
>  
> > In i915_driver_create() get the consistent error value from
> > drm_dev_init() and embed it in the pointer return value.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti at intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>

And pushed, thanks for the patch.
-Chris


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