Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] serial: mctrl_gpio: Add a NULL check to mctrl_gpio_to_gpiod()

Schrempf Frieder
2019-08-06T08:02:17Z

On 06.08.19 09:45, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello Frieder,
>
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 09:01:39AM +0000, Schrempf Frieder wrote:
>> On 02.08.19 14:12, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 10:04:10AM +0000, Schrempf Frieder wrote:
>>>> From: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de>
>>>>
>>>> As it is allowed to use the mctrl_gpio_* functions before
>>>> initialization (as the 8250 driver does according to 434be0ae7aa7),
>>>
>>> Actually I was surprised some time ago that 8250 used serial_mctrl
>>> without first initializing it and expecting it to work. I didn't look in
>>> detail, but I wouldn't go so far to call this "allowed". The commit
>>> itself calls it "workaround" which seems a better match.
>>
>> Ok, but if this is considered to be a workaround and as the 8250 driver
>> does not use mctrl_gpio_to_gpiod(), we should maybe just drop this patch
>> instead of encouraging others to use mctrl_gpio before initialization.
>>
>> I'm really not sure what's best, so depending on what you will propose,
>> I'll send a new version of this patch with adjusted commit message or not.
>
> I wouldn't encourage usage of mctrl-gpio before it's initialized. So I
> suggest to drop this patch.

Ok, thanks.