Re: [PATCH 1/2] pinctrl/pinctrl-tegra: remove IS_ERR checking ofpmx->pctl

From: Stephen Warren
Date: Mon Jun 18 2012 - 14:05:22 EST


On 06/18/2012 11:44 AM, Devendra Naga wrote:
> pinctrl_register returns a pointer of struct type struct pinctrl_dev,
> if successfully registered to pinctrl subsystem, otherwise returns
> NULL, and there wont' be any pointers which are not dereferencible.
>
> They are not type of pointer addresses but are kind of error
> codes rather actual addresses, but are a kind of return
> codes of functions returning integer types.
>
> return -ENODEV if device registration fails.
>
> Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@xxxxxxxxx>

Oops.

Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Probably Cc stable since this is wrong back as far as 3.4.
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