mei: make return values consistent across the driver
1. Propagate ENOTTY to user space if the client is not present
in the system
2. Use ETIME consistently on timeouts
3. Return EIO on write failures
4. Return ENODEV on recoverable device failures such as resets
Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/hbm.c b/drivers/misc/mei/hbm.c
index a28cc92..9555791 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/hbm.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/hbm.c
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
if (ret <= 0 && (dev->hbm_state <= MEI_HBM_START)) {
dev->hbm_state = MEI_HBM_IDLE;
dev_err(&dev->pdev->dev, "waiting for mei start failed\n");
- return -ETIMEDOUT;
+ return -ETIME;
}
return 0;
}