linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/sun4i: Fix error handling

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Date:   Wed, 2 Nov 2016 19:14:44 +0100
From:   Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Cc:     airlied@...ux.ie, wens@...e.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/sun4i: Fix error handling

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 12:53:02PM +0100, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> BTW, memory allocation in 'sun4i_layers_init()' looks spurious, especially
> the use of 'layer' in the for loop.
> Just my 2 cents.

What do you mean by it's spurious?

> I also forgot to say that we could propagate the error code returned by
> sun4i_layers_init instead of returning -EINVAL unconditionally

Indeed. Can you send a patch for that?

Thanks,
Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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