linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] ata: ahci

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Message-ID: <52CE40FA.5070605@ti.com>
Date:	Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:56:02 +0530
From:	Roger Quadros <rogerq@...com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>, <tj@...nel.org>,
	<sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>, <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
	<hdegoede@...hat.com>, <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Balaji T K <balajitk@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] ata: ahci_platform: Manage SATA PHY

On 01/08/2014 05:16 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 January 2014 16:58:15 Roger Quadros wrote:
>> hpriv->phy = devm_phy_get(dev, "sata-phy");
>> if (IS_ERR(hpriv->phy)) {
>>         if (PTR_ERR(hpriv->phy) == -ENODEV)
>>                 goto continue;
>>
>>         dev_err(dev, "couldn't get sata-phy\n");
>>         rc = PTR_ERR(hpriv->phy);
>>         goto disable_unprepare_clk;
>> }
>>
>> continue:
>>
>> if (!IS_ERR(hpriv->phy)) {
>>         rc = phy_init(hpriv->phy);
>>         if (rc)
>>                 goto disable_unprepare_clk;
>>
>>         rc = phy_power_on(hpriv->phy);
>>         if (rc) {
>>                 phy_exit(hpriv->phy);
>>                 goto disable_unprepare_clk;
>>         }
>> }
> 
> As I said, I'd prefer to set hpriv->phy to NULL in case of -ENODEV,
> but functionally it seems right (with the fixup from your other mail).
> 

Why do you prefer setting hpriv->phy to NULL instead of using IS_ERR() check
before hpriv->phy is used?
The latter seems to be the norm at least among clock framework users.

> One more comment: you shouldn't print an error message before
> returning -EPROBE_DEFER, so if you want to keep that message,
> you have to check for that return value after all.
>
Right.

cheers,
-roger
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