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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] pinctrl/pinctrl-tegra: remove IS_ERR checking of pmx->pctl
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:05:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FDF6DDE.3020306@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1340041471-30122-1-git-send-email-devendra.aaru@gmail.com>

On 06/18/2012 11:44 AM, Devendra Naga wrote:
> pinctrl_register returns a pointer of struct type struct pinctrl_dev,
> if successfully registered to pinctrl subsystem, otherwise returns
> NULL, and there wont' be any pointers which are not dereferencible.
> 
> They are not type of pointer addresses but are kind of error
> codes rather actual addresses, but are a kind of return
> codes of functions returning integer types.
> 
> return -ENODEV if device registration fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>

Oops.

Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>

Probably Cc stable since this is wrong back as far as 3.4.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-18 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-18 17:44 [PATCH 1/2] pinctrl/pinctrl-tegra: remove IS_ERR checking of pmx->pctl Devendra Naga
2012-06-18 18:05 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2012-06-20  8:04 ` Linus Walleij

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