linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/17] soc: ti: pruss: add pruss

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Message-ID: <5863d95e-fec2-71f9-03c6-544d23369bef@ti.com>
Date:   Fri, 23 Nov 2018 10:58:58 +0200
From:   Tero Kristo <t-kristo@...com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Roger Quadros <rogerq@...com>
CC:     Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Beno??t Cousson <bcousson@...libre.com>,
        Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@...nel.org>,
        Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Suman Anna <s-anna@...com>, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>,
        <nsaulnier@...com>, <jreeder@...com>,
        Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@...com>,
        <woods.technical@...il.com>,
        linux-omap <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-remoteproc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        DTML <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/17] soc: ti: pruss: add pruss_get()/put() API

On 23/11/2018 10:20, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 12:41 PM Roger Quadros <rogerq@...com> wrote:
> 
>> +
>> +       if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(rproc))
>> +               return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> 
> 
> Any usage of  IS_ERR_OR_NULL() tends to be an indication of a badly
> designed API. Please change this to allow only one of the two to be passed
> around.

Should this be deprecated then?

-Tero
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