Re: [PATCH v2] ptp: fix an IS_ERR() vs NULL check

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-12-04T10:54:14Z

On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 10:00:33AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> I meant to CC you but I screwed up and added you to the From header
> instead... :(
>
> Why did you commit 3b1ad360acad ("pps: using ERR_PTR instead of NULL
> while pps_register_source fails")? You're not listed as a maintainer so
> I wouldn't have known to CC you.

The maintainer told me to do so, see this email thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/44edc27b-e679-24e8-aef1-fe5b7570f982@enneenne.com/

> The back story is that the last chunk which changes drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c
> was dropped by mistake and it's not there in linux-next. I wrote a
> patch which adds it, but everyone is super confused now... Here is
> YueHaibing's original patch btw, for reference.
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg535929.html

If you want me to take a fixup patch for this, I will be glad to. I can
also drop it from my tree as well, just let me know.

Sorry for the confusion.

greg k-h