Re: [PATCH 10/27] drivers/memory: don't check resource withdevm_ioremap_resource

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Jul 23 2013 - 14:25:35 EST


On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 20:01 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> devm_ioremap_resource does sanity checks on the given resource. No need to
> duplicate this in the driver.

Hi Wolfram:

This is the first and only one of the patch series I looked at.

> diff --git a/drivers/memory/tegra20-mc.c b/drivers/memory/tegra20-mc.c
[]
> @@ -218,8 +218,6 @@ static int tegra20_mc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> struct resource *res;
>
> res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, i);
> - if (!res)
> - return -ENODEV;
> mc->regs[i] = devm_ioremap_resource(&pdev->dev, res);

I'm not so sure this is appropriate.

devm_ioremap_resource returns ERR_PTR(-EINVAL) for
null resource so this changes the return.

devm_ioremap_resource also emits a noisy dev_err
message when resource is NULL.

It's a probe and before the message log would be silent
but now there's a new dmesg.

Perhaps that should be mentioned in the changelog here
and elsewhere in the series.


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