netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] mdio_bus: Remove unneeded gpiod NULL check

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:09:21 -0300
From:   Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
To:     Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mdio_bus: Remove unneeded gpiod NULL check

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Sergei Shtylyov
<sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com> wrote:

>    No, it does -- devm_gpiod_get_optinal() will return NULL in that case,
> bus->reset_gpio will remanin NULL, and you're removing the NULL checks
> around the gpiod_set_value_cansleep() calls. Perhaps it's the problem in the
> GPIO support though...

It is perfectly fine to call gpiod_set_value_cansleep() with a NULL
gpio descriptor.

Please take a look at drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c:

gpiod_set_value_cansleep() calls VALIDATE_DESC_VOID

Then if you look at the definition of VALIDATE_DESC_VOID you will see
that it does a NULL check on desc and returns immediately if it is
NULL.

This means we are safe here :-)