linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: replace i2c_new_secondary_device with an ERR

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Date:   Wed, 14 Aug 2019 14:56:19 +0200
From:   Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:     Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
Cc:     linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
        Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@...asonboard.com>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@...asonboard.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: replace i2c_new_secondary_device with an ERR_PTR
 variant

On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 05:40:47PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> In the general move to have i2c_new_*_device functions which return
> ERR_PTR instead of NULL, this patch converts i2c_new_secondary_device().
> 
> There are only few users, so this patch converts the I2C core and all
> users in one go. The function gets renamed to i2c_new_ancillary_device()
> so out-of-tree users will get a build failure to understand they need to
> adapt their error checking code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@...asonboard.com> # adv748x
> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com> # adv7511

Applied to for-next, thanks!


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