RE: [PATCH v4 07/13] staging: typec: tcpci: register port before request irq

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Hi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 2018年3月29日 18:52
> To: Jun Li <jun.li@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx; gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx;
> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Peter Chen
> <peter.chen@xxxxxxx>; linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx;
> dl-linux-imx <linux-imx@xxxxxxx>; shufan_lee@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 07/13] staging: typec: tcpci: register port before request
> irq
> 
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 12:06:12AM +0800, Li Jun wrote:
> > With that we can clear any pending events and the port is registered
> > so driver can be ready to handle typec events once we request irq.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Li Jun <jun.li@xxxxxxx>
> 
> These sign offs aren't clear.
> 
> Sign offs mean that you handled the patch but didn't include any of SCO's
> copyrighted UNIX code into it.  Normally they're in the order of who touched
> the code.  So Peter touched the code first.  Should he get authorship credit?

I will change the patch author to be Peter as he touched the code first.

> How did he touch the code first if he didn't write the code?  It doesn't make
> sense.
> 
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/typec/tcpci.c | 15 ++++++++-------
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/typec/tcpci.c
> > b/drivers/staging/typec/tcpci.c index 4f7ad10..9e0014b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/typec/tcpci.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/typec/tcpci.c
> > @@ -537,25 +537,26 @@ static int tcpci_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
> >  	if (IS_ERR(chip->data.regmap))
> >  		return PTR_ERR(chip->data.regmap);
> >
> > +	i2c_set_clientdata(client, chip);
> > +
> >  	/* Disable chip interrupts before requesting irq */
> >  	err = regmap_raw_write(chip->data.regmap, TCPC_ALERT_MASK, &val,
> >  			       sizeof(u16));
> >  	if (err < 0)
> >  		return err;
> >
> > +	chip->tcpci = tcpci_register_port(&client->dev, &chip->data);
> > +	if (PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(chip->tcpci))
> > +		return PTR_ERR(chip->tcpci);
> 
> When a function returns both error pointers and NULL that means that NULL is a
> secial case of success.  Like for example:
> 
> 	p->my_feature = get_optional_feature();
> 
> If it returns NULL that means the optional feature isn't there, but it's fine because
> it's optional.  But if it returns an error pointer that means the feature is there
> but the hardware is buggy or something so we shouldn't continue.
> 
> If you return PTR_ERR(NULL) that means success.
> 
> I don't think this code makes sense just from looking at it and also when I
> checked tcpci_register_port() doesn't return NULL.

This patch is to change the sequence of register port and request irq,
if error code checking of original code has the problem, I think that
should be another patch to fix it, I can do that later.

> 
> 
> 
> > +
> >  	err = devm_request_threaded_irq(&client->dev, client->irq, NULL,
> >  					_tcpci_irq,
> >  					IRQF_ONESHOT | IRQF_TRIGGER_LOW,
> >  					dev_name(&client->dev), chip);
> >  	if (err < 0)
> > -		return err;
> > +		tcpci_unregister_port(chip->tcpci);
> 
> Can you put the "return err;" back, because that's better style.  It's better to
> keep the error path and success path separate if you can.
> 
> 	if (err < 0) {
> 		tcpci_unregister_port(chip->tcpci);
> 		return err;
> 	}
> 
> 	return 0;
> 

OK, I will change as you suggested, thanks.

Li Jun
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
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