linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] counter: microchip-tcb-capture: check the correct variable

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Date:   Sat, 19 Sep 2020 16:36:13 +0100
From:   Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...23.retrosnub.co.uk>
To:     William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Kamel Bouhara <kamel.bouhara@...tlin.com>,
        linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] counter: microchip-tcb-capture: check the correct
 variable

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 08:28:25 -0400
William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 02:23:16PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > This should be testing "regmap" instead of "priv->regmap".  The
> > "priv->regmap" variable is always zero so it's not an error pointer.
> > 
> > Fixes: 106b104137fd ("counter: Add microchip TCB capture counter")
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>  
> 
> Acked-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
Seems I applied this one a while back but never replied to this thread.
Sorry about that!

Jonathan

> 
> > ---
> > The commit 106b104137fd ("counter: Add microchip TCB capture counter")
> > doesn't use the correct patch prefix.  This is a common mistake for the
> > the first commit which adds the driver.  There is no kernel wide
> > standard for patch prefixes so it's difficult for people sending fixes
> > to know the correct prefix should be.
> > 
> >  drivers/counter/microchip-tcb-capture.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/counter/microchip-tcb-capture.c b/drivers/counter/microchip-tcb-capture.c
> > index f7b7743ddb94..b7b252c5addf 100644
> > --- a/drivers/counter/microchip-tcb-capture.c
> > +++ b/drivers/counter/microchip-tcb-capture.c
> > @@ -320,8 +320,8 @@ static int mchp_tc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	regmap = syscon_node_to_regmap(np->parent);
> > -	if (IS_ERR(priv->regmap))
> > -		return PTR_ERR(priv->regmap);
> > +	if (IS_ERR(regmap))
> > +		return PTR_ERR(regmap);
> >  
> >  	/* max. channels number is 2 when in QDEC mode */
> >  	priv->num_channels = of_property_count_u32_elems(np, "reg");
> > -- 
> > 2.27.0
> >