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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>,
	Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>,
	spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] spi: fix return value check in hspi_probe().
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 09:56:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121222095620.83E243E07FA@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121219163914.GN5032@mwanda>

On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:39:14 +0300, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 03:11:54PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:36:27 -0800 (PST), Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > > According to its documentation, clk_get() returns a "valid IS_ERR() condition
> > > > containing errno", so we should call IS_ERR() rather than a NULL check.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
> > 
> > Applied, thanks.
> 
> In another thread, we were just talking about who clk_get() can
> return a NULL if !CONFIG_HAVE_CLK.  That might change to match the
> documentation later...  Not sure.

So what is the solution here? Will the dummy clk_get() be changed, or is
there more work needed on the drivers?

/me stifles a rant about the PTR_ERR pattern

g.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-22 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-12  0:24 [PATCH 0/5] Use IS_ERR() rather than a NULL check when necessary Cyril Roelandt
2012-12-12  0:24 ` [PATCH 1/5] staging: omap-thermal: fix error check in omap_thermal_expose_sensor() and in omap_thermal_register_cpu_cooling() Cyril Roelandt
2012-12-12  6:51   ` Eduardo Valentin
2012-12-12  0:24 ` [PATCH 2/5] media: davinci: fix return value check in vpbe_display_reqbufs() Cyril Roelandt
2012-12-12  5:10   ` Prabhakar Lad
2012-12-12  0:24 ` [PATCH 3/5] c2port: fix return value check in duramar2150_c2port_init() Cyril Roelandt
2012-12-12  0:24 ` [PATCH 4/5] net: sfc: fix return value check in efx_ptp_probe_channel() Cyril Roelandt
2012-12-12  5:15   ` David Miller
2012-12-21  3:09     ` Ben Hutchings
2012-12-12  0:24 ` [PATCH 5/5] spi: fix return value check in hspi_probe() Cyril Roelandt
2012-12-12  0:36   ` Kuninori Morimoto
2012-12-19 15:11     ` Grant Likely
2012-12-19 16:39       ` Dan Carpenter
2012-12-22  9:56         ` Grant Likely [this message]
2013-01-03 16:04           ` Dan Carpenter
2013-01-11 15:02             ` Grant Likely
2013-01-12  0:01               ` Dan Carpenter

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