Re: [PATCH] i2c: mv64xxx: Fix compilation breakage

[Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>]

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On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:49:59AM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:58:08AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:08:36PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 03:59:30PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> >> > > @@ -900,7 +902,8 @@ mv64xxx_i2c_probe(struct platform_device *pd)
> >> > >  exit_free_irq:
> >> > >   free_irq(drv_data->irq, drv_data);
> >> > >  exit_reset:
> >> > > - if (pd->dev.of_node && !IS_ERR(drv_data->rstc))
> >> > > + if (pd->dev.of_node && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RESET_CONTROLLER) &&
> >> > > +     !IS_ERR(drv_data->rstc))
> >> > >           reset_control_assert(drv_data->rstc);
> >> >
> >> > Another question is... why do we need to check pd->dev.of_node here?
> >> > If CONFIG_RESET_CONTROLLER is set, we always try to get the reset
> >> > controller node, so drv_data->rstc is either going to be a valid
> >> > pointer, or it's going to be an error pointer - neither
> >> > reset_control_get() nor devm_reset_control_get return NULL.
> >>
> >> Following back on this as I was doing the patch, actually,
> >> drv_data->rstc will be NULL if we're not probed by DT, and hence never
> >> call reset_control_get, that would set an error pointer.
> >>
> >> But then, we can use IS_ERR_OR_NULL on drv_data->rstc.
> >
> > I think you can also move the devm_reset_control_get() into the main
> > probe function: you're only checking for -EPROBE_DEFER from it to fail,
> > allowing other errors to continue with the driver init.  This means
> > that on non-OF, devm_reset_control_get() will fail with -ENOENT.
> 
> Looping linux-next into the CC since this is the cause of the failure
> in orion5x_defconfig there, and no point in anyone else re-doing the
> same bisect.

I sent a fix for this that hasn't been picked up yet:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-March/239069.html

IIRC, Wolfram's away until Monday, so I guess it will be merged some
time next week.

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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