linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] thermal: db8500_cpufreq_cooling: remove usage of IS_ERR_OR

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Date:	Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:03:34 +0100
From:	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@...aro.org>
Cc:	Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@...com>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Hongbo Zhang <hongbo.zhang@...ricsson.com>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] thermal: db8500_cpufreq_cooling: remove usage of
	IS_ERR_OR_NULL()

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:19:08PM +0200, Fabio Baltieri wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 06:46:35PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:13:34AM -0400, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> > > diff --git a/drivers/thermal/db8500_cpufreq_cooling.c b/drivers/thermal/db8500_cpufreq_cooling.c
> > > index 21419851..786d192 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/thermal/db8500_cpufreq_cooling.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/thermal/db8500_cpufreq_cooling.c
> > > @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static int db8500_cpufreq_cooling_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > >  	cpumask_set_cpu(0, &mask_val);
> > >  	cdev = cpufreq_cooling_register(&mask_val);
> > >  
> > > -	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(cdev)) {
> > > +	if (IS_ERR(cdev)) {
> > >  		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to register cooling device\n");
> > >  		return PTR_ERR(cdev);
> > 
> > Correct.  cpufreq_cooling_register() returns either an error-pointer or
> > a valid pointer.
> 
> Acked-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@...aro.org>
> 
> ...but more of these are going to appear forever, was the proposed
> removal of IS_ERR_OR_NULL rejected?  Can't find any new message about
> that on the list.

We first need to get rid of the existing users of it - I've got rid of
most of those in arch/arm - but it seems that I never pushed that in the
last merge window.

Really it needs the cooperation of everyone to make it happen across the
tree with everyone removing IS_ERR_OR_NULL() in their subsystem.  There
are currently 366 instances of this macro being used in the entire tree
which is far too many to even mark it as deprecated.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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