Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: busses: i2c-pxa.c: Fix for possible null pointer dereferenc
From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Thu Jul 03 2014 - 04:42:03 EST
Hi Rickard, hi Jingoo,
> I also trust Wolfram. He is one of the most important and active
> person for Linux kernel.
Oh, thanks. I'm flattered :)
> Wolfram may mean devm_ioremap_resource(), not devm_ioremap().
Yes, you are right. Sorry for missing this detail when suggesting an
example to convert to devm_*. devm_ioremap_resource should be favoured
over devm_ioremap.
> 1. devm_ioremap_resource(): IS_ERR() can be used.
>
> dev->virtbase = devm_ioremap_resource(&adev->dev, res));
> if (IS_ERR(dev->virtbase)) {
This is correct and preferred.
BTW I don't care much about splitting up the patch as long as the commit
message says that the original bug is a motivation to swicth to devm_*.
Thanks Rickard for picking up the task, and thanks Jingoo for reviewing.
Kind regards,
Wolfram
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