linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/24] drivers/iommu: check actual error on iommu

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:24:30 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Cc:	Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@...cle.com>, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/24]  drivers/iommu: check actual error on iommu_init

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 05:21:54PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:29:19PM +0800, Jeff Liu wrote:
> > From: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@...cle.com>
> > 
> > kset_create_and_add() has been fixed to return the actual error
> > code ptr rather than NULL, so update iommu_init() to check the
> > return value via IS_ERR() accordingly.
> > 
> > Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@...cle.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>

Nope, please do not take this patch, it is not needed and as the kset
call is not changing, it will be incorrect.

thanks,

greg k-h
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