Re: [PATCH 04/10] -mm clocksource: add some new API calls

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Aug 04 2006 - 17:02:24 EST


On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 12:28 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > > int clocksource_register(struct clocksource *c)
> > > {
> > > int ret = 0;
> > > unsigned long flags;
> > >
> > > + if (unlikely(!c))
> > > + return -EINVAL;
> > > +
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand the need for this. Is it really likely someone
> > would pass NULL to clocksource_register()?
>
> Not likely, I was just covering all possibilities.. It might be better
> as a BUG_ON() actually.

BUG_ON is the only thing, which can be correct here. Registering a NULL
clocksource simply is a bug, but even the BUG_ON is overkill here.

tglx


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