Re: [PATCH v3] ASoC: cs43130: Allow driver to work without IRQ connection

[Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 03:54:14PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 03:46:26PM +0000, Maciej Strozek wrote:
> > W dniu 20/11/2023 o 14:40, Mark Brown pisze:
> 
> > > > +		} else {
> > > > +			return 0;
> > > > +		}
> 
> > > Is it a bug to call this function without to_poll set to something
> > > known?  This will just silently ignore it which seems wrong and is
> > > inconsitent with the handling in the interrupt case which will wait for
> > > the the completion to be signalled and report a timeout on error.
> 
> > In interrupt case 0 means timeout (and calling function should expect 0 as
> > error/timeout), so the only inconsistency I see is in not waiting before
> > returning a timeout, but that would be needlessly wasting time?
> > Do you think adding a debug print or a comment would help here?
> 
> It seems like a clear code bug if this is ever called with an unknown
> completion, I'd expect a WARN_ON_ONCE() there.  The lack of a delay is
> potentially going to affect how any error handling works which doesn't
> feel ideal though the users look fine right now.

I guess perhaps another option might be to not stick so strictly
to the wait_for_completion_timeout API. This function could
return an -EINVAL here and a -ETIMEDOUT for a timeout then the
callers could be updated accordingly.

Thanks,
Charles