Re: [PATCH] i2c: imx: Remove a useless test in 'i2c_imx_init_recovery_info()'

From: Christophe JAILLET
Date: Tue Aug 08 2017 - 03:41:08 EST


Le 07/08/2017 à 08:36, Uwe Kleine-König a écrit :
On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 01:49:53AM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
'devm_pinctrl_get()' never returns NULL, so this test can be simplified.
That's wrong. If CONFIG_PINCTRL is disabled devm_pinctrl_get returns
NULL. But I think this shouldn't be considered an error, so your change
is right, just the commit log is not.
With that said, in fact, I think that the test is correct as is.
If CONFIG_PINCTRL is disabled, we will display an info about a missing functionality, but would still continue normally without it (i.e. return PTR_ERR(NULL) = 0 = success), as stated in the comment in front of 'i2c_imx_init_recovery_info':
"These alternative pinmux settings can be described in the device tree by
a separate pinctrl state "gpio". If this is missing this is not a big
problem, the only implication is that we can't do bus recovery."

So, I won't propose any v2 patch with an updated commit log.
Feel free to update it yourself and apply it if you don't share my analysis above.

Sorry for the noise.

CJ


diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c
index 54a47b40546f..7e84662fe1c0 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c
@@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ static int i2c_imx_init_recovery_info(struct imx_i2c_struct *i2c_imx,
struct i2c_bus_recovery_info *rinfo = &i2c_imx->rinfo;
i2c_imx->pinctrl = devm_pinctrl_get(&pdev->dev);
- if (!i2c_imx->pinctrl || IS_ERR(i2c_imx->pinctrl)) {
+ if (IS_ERR(i2c_imx->pinctrl)) {
dev_info(&pdev->dev, "can't get pinctrl, bus recovery not supported\n");
return PTR_ERR(i2c_imx->pinctrl);
}
Side note: I'm not sure, this construct is valid. IIRC PTR_ERR should
only be called for values x where IS_ERR(x) is true. Here it is at least
surprising that an message hints to a problem but the return code is 0.

@Julia: I'm sure coccinelle can find more of those?!

Best regards
Uwe