linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regmap: kunit: Fix an NULL vs IS

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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:00:11 +0200
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>,
 kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
 Richard Fitzgerald <rf@...nsource.cirrus.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regmap: kunit: Fix an NULL vs IS_ERR() check

> The kunit_device_register() function returns error pointers, not NULL.
> Passing an error pointer to get_device() will lead to an Oops.  Also
> get_device() returns the same device you passed to it. …

How do you think about to convert this adjustment into a patch series
with two update steps?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.9-rc4#n81

Regards,
Markus