Re: [PATCH] ptp: fix an IS_ERR() vs NULL check

Richard Cochran
2018-11-30T16:32:52Z

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 03:58:34PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The pps_register_source() function doesn't return NULL, it returns
> error pointers.

It keeps a local variable for errno, but then it returns NULL.
But this is about to change with this recent patch:

26.Nov'18 YueHaibing [PATCH -next] pps: using ERR_PTR instead of NULL while pps_register_source fails

It hasn't been merged yet AFAICT, but gregkh said he take it.

Thanks,
Richard