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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] drm/i915: checking IS_ERR() instead of NULL
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:47:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150430144713.GD16501@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150430144302.GB31838@nuc-i3427.alporthouse.com>

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 03:43:02PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 05:30:50PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > We switched from calling i915_gem_alloc_context_obj() to calling
> > i915_gem_alloc_object() so the error handling needs to be updated to
> > check for NULL instead of IS_ERR().
> 
> I had a patch to change i915_gem_alloc_object() to report the correct
> error rather than NULL - which can come in surprisingly handy at
> times...

That also works, of course.  Send it.  :)

regards,
dan carpenter

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-30 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-30 14:30 [patch] drm/i915: checking IS_ERR() instead of NULL Dan Carpenter
2015-04-30 14:43 ` Chris Wilson
2015-04-30 14:47   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2015-05-05  7:30     ` Daniel Vetter

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