From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B8BA6277026; Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:33:19 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1792305200; cv=none; b=Y0Uumt8OzhUukqUoDYra5NrrWVZAmp7ToLELZHUzwRmfkhDZWBNqRIQskdk41rrgvd5UECeDVnb5kaTe4lBWBZfgNfdk9PqzRJ4zE/dET9t0oxijmDjO1VMclewetq30dCbqvOSh8DN98LSBIT2bhalv5BADIYEpu1j1EIjNOH0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1792305200; c=relaxed/simple; bh=fTQq3baiWMdYfx0Q8a21Yl4sPRMJBuSHVU1XC74vjWo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=mFJaH3OX0MISui6OpXv1P4lTX25a8Td34+pDhOPx9zi8tQrGBEJRmg3OngvqrY1atnd5dNjwp9hHNOHY20jO0Xcvbq7foyBqMmbbbvHPVMtojOKpXtq0XS2PRUPSBEADJiqocUpk7f6sP8KwLRpXzMjoZya/YaKDO4MpYimSILs= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=uLqXj1hh; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="uLqXj1hh" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8D0B01F000C4; Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:33:18 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1792305199; bh=UaRJmFERky/mo8yFBithcos+Bsd5rz1z03eXuI8Oq4s=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=uLqXj1hhZYl8WkDkuCX2GP9wA1ZOv+YHBuqZN/zD/xQjP19+YsIjoKVzwAaGLCsqZ Oe7JJiCYdN5qj3BehHCSnqYnxnqe6ecl9fqn35+NNy3tIfOtGI3J781Jg0SVzec9pu leF6V7n/P/2uuUMvpNBpLk88LkencC2AUmCVho3s= Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:33:14 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Yalagada Pavan Kumar Cc: johan@kernel.org, vireshk@kernel.org, elder@kernel.org, greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, outreachy@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] staging: greybus: replace PTR_ERR() with %pe in error messages Message-ID: <2026101846-surfboard-fender-a3ce@gregkh> References: <20261015082238.65187-1-pavankumaryalagada@gmail.com> <2026101707-routine-hatchback-4a35@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Sat, Oct 17, 2026 at 07:15:57PM +0530, Yalagada Pavan Kumar wrote: > On Sat, Oct 17, 2026 at 01:20:39PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 01:52:38PM +0530, pavankumaryalagada@gmail.com wrote: > > > From: Yalagada Pavan Kumar > > > > > > Use %pe to print error pointers directly and display their > > > error names. > > > > > > Keep PTR_ERR() calls when the numeric error value is needed > > > for returning the error code. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Yalagada Pavan Kumar > > > --- > > > v4: > > > - Return error codes directly instead of storing them in ret, > > > as suggested by Julia Lawall. > > > - Remove the unused ret variable. > > > > > > Hi, > > > > This is the friendly patch-bot of Greg Kroah-Hartman. You have sent him > > a patch that has triggered this response. He used to manually respond > > to these common problems, but in order to save his sanity (he kept > > writing the same thing over and over, yet to different people), I was > > created. Hopefully you will not take offence and will fix the problem > > in your patch and resubmit it so that it can be accepted into the Linux > > kernel tree. > > > > You are receiving this message because of the following common error(s) > > as indicated below: > > > > - Your patch did not apply to any known trees that Greg is in control > > of. Possibly this is because you made it against Linus's tree, not > > the linux-next tree, which is where all of the development for the > > next version of the kernel is at. Please refresh your patch against > > the linux-next tree, or even better yet, the development tree > > specified in the MAINTAINERS file for the subsystem you are submitting > > a patch for, and resend it. > > This v4 patch did not apply because arche-apb-ctrl.c and arche-platform.c > were removed by commit 2f75b2eac999. > > The fw-core.c changes from my earlier v1 patch present in staging/staging-next. > > Only the change to uart.c remains. > > Should i send a v5 containing only the remaining change in uart.c? If you wish to see this patch applied, yes. > Also, should i keep Alex Elder's Reviewed-by tag in v5? If the only change is removal of other parts of the patch, yes. thanks, greg k-h