From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] stmmac: fix check for phydev being open Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 17:08:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20150909.170806.1419774665265285481.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1441810868-7212-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com, peppe.cavallaro@st.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org To: Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1441810868-7212-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Alexey Brodkin Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 18:01:08 +0300 > Current check of phydev with IS_ERR(phydev) may make not much sense > because of_phy_connect() returns NULL on failure instead of error value. > > Still for checking result of phy_connect() IS_ERR() makes perfect sense. > > So let's use combined check IS_ERR_OR_NULL() that covers both cases. > > Cc: Sergei Shtylyov > Cc: Giuseppe Cavallaro > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > Cc: David Miller > Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin Applied, thanks.