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From: wsa@the-dreams.de (Wolfram Sang)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] i2c: mv64xxx: Fix compilation breakage
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:48:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140328074806.GB2708@katana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140324094137.GB5416@lukather>


> > I think there is something wrong with an interface that makes you use
> > IS_ERR_OR_NULL(). If you are calling reset_control_get_optional(), that'
> > should not return an error when there is no reset controller listed
> > in the device tree. We should still have a way to propagate -EPROBE_DEFER,
> > or bail out if there is a reset controller but there is something wrong
> > with it, but otherwise I'd suggest just leaving NULL as a valid pointer
> > in drv_data->rstc and making sure that the reset controller functions
> > can just deal with a NULL argument, so you never have to check it again.
> 
> Actually, it's not the reset framework but the driver itself that
> needs this. The framework will always return an error pointer here,
> but we won't ever call reset_control_get_optional if we are not probed
> with DT, and in that case, we will have NULL is data->rstc, hence why
> we need to use IS_ERR_OR_NULL.
> 
> We should probably fix the reset functions, but maybe that can come
> later so that we have marvell's defconfig fixed?

Yes, let's fix that incrementally.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-28  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-07 14:59 [PATCH] i2c: mv64xxx: Fix compilation breakage Maxime Ripard
2014-03-07 16:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-03-07 17:19   ` Maxime Ripard
2014-03-07 17:29     ` Wolfram Sang
2014-03-07 17:52       ` Maxime Ripard
2014-03-10 10:58   ` Maxime Ripard
2014-03-10 11:29     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-03-21 15:49       ` Paul Gortmaker
2014-03-21 19:17         ` Maxime Ripard
2014-03-22 11:11           ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-03-24  9:41             ` Maxime Ripard
2014-03-28  7:48               ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2014-03-24 13:33           ` Wolfram Sang
2014-03-24 14:03             ` Gregory CLEMENT

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