Re: [PATCH v3] drm: bridge: add DesignWare HDMI I2S audio support

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Mon Nov 07 2016 - 09:57:08 EST


On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 03:50:00AM +0000, Kuninori Morimoto wrote:
>
> Hi Russell
>
> > > + platform = platform_device_register_full(&pdevinfo);
> > > + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(platform))
> > > + return PTR_ERR(platform);
> >
> > This is wrong. If platform is NULL, PTR_ERR() will return zero, which
> > will be interpreted as success. Please, avoid using IS_ERR_OR_NULL(),
> > it leads to exactly this kind of cockup - and it's unnecessary here
> > because platform_device_register_full() does not return NULL.
>
> Thank you for your feedback.
> Before sending v4 patch, I would like to confirm. Do you meand this ?
> # use IS_ERR() instead of IS_ERR_OR_NULL()
>
> platform = platform_device_register_full(&pdevinfo);
> if (IS_ERR(platform))
> return PTR_ERR(platform);

Yes, that's exactly correct.

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