Re: [PATCH] sm501fb: Silence a coccinelle script warning.

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Tue Jun 20 2017 - 17:41:52 EST


Hi Bartlomiej,

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 12:54:58PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Monday, May 08, 2017 08:11:16 AM Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > According to surrounding goto, it is likely that 'goto err_probed_panel' is
> > expected here.
> > This change is just done in order to silence some coccinelle scripts
> > which try to detect wrongly ordered goto.
> >
> > If 'info->fb[HEAD_PANEL]' and' 'info->fb[HEAD_CRT]' are both NULL, this
> > means that no 'framebuffer_alloc' has been performed, so 'goto err_alloc'
> > looks fine.
> > Anyway, it is also harmless in this case to call 'framebuffer_release'.
> > The code looks more straight forward.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It seems that the code for supporting only selected framebuffers
> (only HEAD_PANEL fb or only HEAD_CRT fb) is broken anyway as at least
> the suspend/resume support assumes that both framebuffers are always
> present. Also all sm501fb driver users always try try to initialize
> both framebuffers. Therefore I would prefer the removal of non-working
> individual framebuffers support (the code that your patch modifies
> would be removed as well). Could you please look into it?

Looks like it will be easier to fix the suspend/resume functions and
the part of probe which creates the device files for both.
Let me have a look and I will try to send you a patch over the weekend.


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Regards
Sudip