Re: i2c-HID: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "gpiod_put"

From: SF Markus Elfring
Date: Thu Jul 09 2015 - 17:10:47 EST


>> The proposed update candidates are contained in the source
>> file "drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid.c" from Linux next-20150708.
>>
>> * i2c_hid_remove() function:
>> Can it be tolerated here that the pointer "ihid->desc" might be eventually null?
>>
>> * i2c_hid_probe() function:
>> Is this implementation structured in such a way that a pointer for valid data
>> will be usually passed for "ihid->desc" if the statements after the jump
>> label "err" will be reached?
>>
>
> Again, in both case it is completely normal to have "ihid->desc ==
> NULL" given that this field is only retrieved in case of an ACPI
> device which does not declares an IRQ but a GPIO. Most ACPI devices I
> saw are using a simple IRQ, and the OF instantiations of the driver
> will definitively have ihid->desc null. So I do not want to have a
> warning for most of i2c-hid devices out there (because I will have to
> explain that this is completely normal again and again).

Would it make sense to annotate checks before such function calls
as "unlikely" then?

Regards,
Markus
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