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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:42:48 +0200 From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de> To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...com>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, shiraz.hashim@...com, Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] driver core: let dev_set_drvdata return int instead of void as it can fail On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 04:58:12PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 08:42:58PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > Before commit > > > > b402843 (Driver core: move dev_get/set_drvdata to drivers/base/dd.c) > > > > calling dev_set_drvdata with dev=NULL was an unchecked error. After some > > discussion about what to return in this case removing the check (and so > > producing a null pointer exception) seems fine. > > > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de> > > --- > > Hello, > > > > @Viresh: as I didn't choose to return -EINVAL I didn't add your Reviewed-by: > > I'm confused by this thread, care to resend all of these in a series > against the latest linux-next tree? No problem, here it comes. This are patches 1 to 4 of the original series + v2 of patch 5 (that didn't have 5/5 in the subject). Best regards, Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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