Re: [PATCH 3/3] i2c: i801: avoid panic if ioreamp fails

From: Kefeng Wang
Date: Fri May 10 2019 - 21:36:04 EST



On 2019/5/10 20:18, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Fri, 10 May 2019 17:35:46 +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
>> On 2019/5/10 16:09, Jean Delvare wrote:
>>> We don't need this anyway. The comment says it can't fail, so why
>>> bother checking for a condition which will never happen?
>> The ioremap could fails due to no memory, our inner test robot(enable FAULT_INJECTION)
>>
>> find this issue.
> The code only runs on x86 where this specific memory segment is
> standardized for the purpose. That's how we know it "can't fail".
>
> That being said, maybe it could fail for other reasons (internal kernel
> bug, or bogus BIOS maybe), and I don't care adding the check
> anyway, as this code path is not performance critical.
Got it , please ignore it.
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