RE: [PATCH v6 44/49] net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc: avoid use of IS_ERR_VALUE()

From: Leo Li
Date: Mon Dec 02 2019 - 17:52:09 EST




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> From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> To: Qiang Zhao <qiang.zhao@xxxxxxx>; Leo Li <leoyang.li@xxxxxxx>;
> Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
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> Subject: [PATCH v6 44/49] net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc: avoid use of
> IS_ERR_VALUE()

Hi David,

Would you help to review patch 44-47 in the series? If it is fine with you, I can take these 4 patches with the whole series though soc tree to enable the QE drivers on ARM and PPC64 with your ACK.

Thanks,
Leo

>
> When building this on a 64-bit platform gcc rightly warns that the error
> checking is broken (-ENOMEM stored in an u32 does not compare greater
> than (unsigned long)-MAX_ERRNO). Instead, now that
> qe_muram_alloc() returns s32, use that type to store the return value and
> use standard kernel style "ret < 0".
>
> Reviewed-by: Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>