From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] hwmon: (lm90) Add power control Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 11:33:13 -0600 Message-ID: <5203D659.4050907@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1375944991-29182-1-git-send-email-wni@nvidia.com> <1375944991-29182-2-git-send-email-wni@nvidia.com> <520359E9.1000600@roeck-us.net> <52036920.4050808@nvidia.com> <52037F9A.7070802@roeck-us.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <52037F9A.7070802-0h96xk9xTtrk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-tegra-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Guenter Roeck Cc: Wei Ni , "khali-PUYAD+kWke1g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org" , Matthew Longnecker , "linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" , "lm-sensors-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-tegra-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org On 08/08/2013 05:23 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 08/08/2013 02:47 AM, Wei Ni wrote: ... >> I think get_regulator() will return error values, not only >> -EPROBE_DEFER, so we should set data->lm90_reg to NULL to handle other >> error values. >> > Matter of opinion if you want to check for IS_ERR or NULL later on. No, if regulator returns either: * Something valid * Someting IS_ERR() ... then everywhere has to check the value using IS_ERR(). If regulator returns either: * Something valid * Someting NULL ... then everywhere has to check the value against NULL. checking against both IS_ERR() and NULL shouldn't ever happen, and likewise IS_ERR_OR_NULL() is deprecated.