linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 01/12] i2c: replace i2c_new_probed_device with an ERR

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Date:   Thu, 28 Nov 2019 17:16:42 +0100
From:   Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:     Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
Cc:     linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/12] i2c: replace i2c_new_probed_device with an
 ERR_PTR variant

On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 10:50:19AM +0100, 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_probed_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_scanned_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>

Eeks, this nearly slipped through the cracks because I marked it as RFC
in patchwork...

Applied to for-next, thanks!


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