Re: [PATCH v6 04/12] PCI: Make pciehp_is_native() stricter

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On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 01:08:37PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Why do we even need to bother checking "bridge" for NULL?
> 
> I don't believe in gratuitously checking for NULL because it can hide
> higher-level bugs, i.e., if this is called with a NULL pointer, that's
> likely a bug in the caller, and if we silently return "false", we'll
> never discover the caller's bug.

But it also makes caller's life easier because now you don't need to do
this:

   if (bus->self && hotplug_is_native(bus->self))

because it is perfectly legal to call that function for host bridge. So
you do this instead

   if (hotplug_is_native(bus->self))

and it is not hiding a bug IMHO.
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