Re: [PATCH 1/2] rtc: max77686: convert to devm_i2c_new_dummy_device()

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 30/08/2019 15:00:35+0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> 
> > > > I'm confused because I already applied:
> > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux.git/commit/?h=rtc-next&id=7150710f3084de8d35ce3221eeae2caee8813f92
> > > 
> > > The above was a mass conversion to i2c_new_dummy_device() to make sure
> > > all in-kernel users use the API returning an ERRPTR. Mass conversion to
> > > the devm_ variant of the same function was too troublesome.
> > > 
> > > With another series, I wanted to remove superfluous error checking of
> > > i2c_unregister_device() because it is NULL-ptr safe, like here:
> > > 
> > > > > -	if (info->rtc)
> > > > > -		i2c_unregister_device(info->rtc);
> > > 
> > > But for these two RTC drivers, I figured moving to devm_* is way easier
> > > than fixing up the mass conversion result from coccinelle.
> > > 
> > 
> > Ok so should I drop the previous patches and apply those instead?
> 
> Nope, they should be incremental, aren't they?
> 
No, your patches don't apply on top of rtc-next


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