linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] of_get_mac_address ERR

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Date:   Tue, 07 May 2019 12:23:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ynezz@...e.cz
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, matthias.bgg@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, hkallweit1@...il.com, frowand.list@...il.com,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, maxime.ripard@...tlin.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] of_get_mac_address ERR_PTR fixes

From: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@...e.cz>
Date: Mon,  6 May 2019 23:24:43 +0200

> this patch series is an attempt to fix the mess, I've somehow managed to
> introduce.
> 
> First patch in this series is defacto v5 of the previous 05/10 patch in the
> series, but since the v4 of this 05/10 patch wasn't picked up by the
> patchwork for some unknown reason, this patch wasn't applied with the other
> 9 patches in the series, so I'm resending it as a separate patch of this
> fixup series again.
> 
> Second patch is a result of this rebase against net-next tree, where I was
> checking again all current users of of_get_mac_address and found out, that
> there's new one in DSA, so I've converted this user to the new ERR_PTR
> encoded error value as well.
> 
> Third patch which was sent as v5 wasn't considered for merge, but I still
> think, that we need to check for possible NULL value, thus current IS_ERR
> check isn't sufficient and we need to use IS_ERR_OR_NULL instead.
> 
> Fourth patch fixes warning reported by kbuild test robot.

Series applied, thanks.