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Message-ID: <20141015121929.GB26579@amd>
Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:19:29 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
Cc:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Myungjoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@...sung.com>,
	Jonghwa Lee <jonghwa3.lee@...sung.com>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] power_supply: sysfs: Use power_supply_*() API for
 accessing function attrs


> > > @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static ssize_t power_supply_show_property(struct device *dev,
> > >  	if (off == POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_TYPE) {
> > >  		value.intval = psy->type;
> > >  	} else {
> > > -		ret = psy->get_property(psy, off, &value);
> > > +		ret = power_supply_get_property(psy, off, &value);
> > >  
> > 
> > One thing.. Your power_supply_get_property (and friends) check for psy
> > == NULL. Is it neccessary / good idea? As far as I can tell, it should
> > not really be NULL...
> 
> It is not necessary. I thought it would be a good behavior of such
> exported function. You're right that this shouldn't be NULL especially
> because previously it was dereferenced.
> 
> Other existing power supply exported functions don't check this so maybe
> I shouldn't introduce inconsistency.
> 
> I'll remove the check and re-spin. I'll found ugly typos in commit
> message anyway.

Thanks!
									Pavel
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