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From: julia.lawall@lip6.fr (Julia Lawall)
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 10:58:13 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [PATCH] phy: fix error handling
In-Reply-To: <20160704085102.GF32301@mwanda>
References: <1467525332-12963-1-git-send-email-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
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On Mon, 4 Jul 2016, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 01:22:50PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Monday 04 July 2016 02:38 AM, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > > I will resubmit in the coming days.
> > >
> > >    return PTR_ERR(phy->clk);
> > > should also be updated.
> >
> > while at that, also fix your $subject to something like
> > "phy: sun9i-usb: fix error handling"
> >
>
> Yes.  Also the first patch should have used that same prefix.
> 9c3b44302636 ('phy: Add driver to support individual USB PHYs on sun9i')
>
> We have this problem quite often, but other subsystems have fixed it
> because they start using the correct prefix when the driver is added.
> The second patch for this driver had the same issue:
> 9c3b44302636 ('phy: Add driver to support individual USB PHYs on sun9i')

Is there any hope to some day have a deterministic algorithm?  Something
that get_maintainers could figure out.

julia