Re: [PATCH v5] fbtft: add tearing signal detect

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Jan 27 2021 - 03:53:10 EST


Hi Dan, Carlis,

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 9:32 AM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 02:19:27PM +0800, carlis wrote:
> > hi,i will fix it like below:
> > par->gpio.te = devm_gpiod_get_index_optional(dev, "te", 0,
> > GPIOD_IN); if (IS_ERR(par->gpio.te)) {
> > rc = PTR_ERR(par->gpio.te);
> > pr_err("Failed to request te gpio: %d\n", rc);
> > par->gpio.te = NULL;
> > }
>
> I wish you would just copy and paste the code that I sent you instead,
> but this also fixes the crash...

While this fixes the crash, it does not propagate the error condition
(which may be -EPROBE_DEFER) upstream.
Same for devm_request_irq().

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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