On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Wolfram Sang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Linus, > >> > From: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]> >> > >> > These functions are supposed to return an error pointer, not NULL. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]> >> >> Worried that some driver may depend on this behaviour, but >> patch applied anyway, let's deal with it. > > I sent a similar patch to Russell for the clk API and he rightfully > NAKed it. NULL is a valid cookie from clk_get and the whole clk API is > able to deal with NULL. That ensures that for !HAVE_CLK, clk_get is > still successful and won't fail driver_probe while the other clk API > functions don't really do anything. If the gpio API is similar to that, > we should revert my patch.
OK reverted for fixes, no big deal. Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-gpio" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
