Re: [PATCH 1/1] pinctrl: add some error checking for user interfaces

[Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>]

On 04/09/2012 09:49 PM, Dong Aisheng wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 11:03:06PM +0800, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 04/09/2012 04:30 AM, Dong Aisheng wrote:
>>> From: Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@linaro.org>
>>>
>>> This patch can avoid kernel oops in case the mux or config
>>> function is not supported by driver.
...
>>>  static int pinconf_pins_show(struct seq_file *s, void *what)
>>>  {
>>>  	struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev = s->private;
>>> +	const struct pinconf_ops *ops = pctldev->desc->confops;
>>>  	unsigned i, pin;
>>>  
>>> +	if (!ops || !ops->pin_config_get)
>>> +		return 0;
>>
>> I don't think this is necessary; it looks like this function (and those
>> it calls) always checks ops where they're used.
>
> Yes, it's true.
> But it will still dump all pins configs although there's no config value
> which is almost the same as another debug entry 'pins'.
> It looks it does not make too much sense to dump this info if no config support.
> The existing pinconf_group_show did like this way(no output).
> So i changed pinconf_pins_show in the same behavior as pinconf_group_show.
> 
> Do you think it's reasonable?

OK, I guess so.

I was thinking the file wouldn't be compiled without pin config support,
but that's only the core support and doesn't necessarily imply the
individual driver has support.