Re: [PATCH 1/2] power: charger-manager: regulator_get() never returns NULL.

From: Sachin Kamat
Date: Tue Jun 25 2013 - 01:08:10 EST


On 25 June 2013 10:32, Jonghwa Lee <jonghwa3.lee@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch fixes return value checking of regulator_get() in charger-manager
> driver. The API, regulator_get(), returns ERR_PTR() when it fails to get
> regulator with given name, not NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonghwa Lee <jonghwa3.lee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Myungjoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/power/charger-manager.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/power/charger-manager.c b/drivers/power/charger-manager.c
> index ba42029..7d1bcde 100644
> --- a/drivers/power/charger-manager.c
> +++ b/drivers/power/charger-manager.c
> @@ -1239,7 +1239,7 @@ static int charger_manager_register_extcon(struct charger_manager *cm)
>
> charger->consumer = regulator_get(cm->dev,
> charger->regulator_name);
> - if (charger->consumer == NULL) {
> + if (IS_ERR(charger->consumer)) {
> dev_err(cm->dev, "Cannot find charger(%s)\n",
> charger->regulator_name);
> ret = -EINVAL;

You can as well make this ret = PTR_ERR(charger->consumer).

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With warm regards,
Sachin
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