Hello Li, On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 04:46:06PM +0800, Li Yang wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Uwe Kleine-König > <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> - i2c_imx_init_recovery_info(i2c_imx, pdev); > >> + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(i2c_imx->pinctrl)) > > > > I'd prefer to set i2c_imx->pinctrl to NULL if it's not used and then use > > > > if (!i2c_imx->pinctrl) > > > > here. (Or maybe make i2c_imx_init_recovery_info aware of this situation > > to keep the caller simple?) > > Setting not used pointer to NULL might be a good coding practice > generally. But in this case neither the driver nor gpio framework > checks if the pinctrl is NULL before accessing it. We still need the > driver to make sure pinctrl is not used in this situation. The > benefit of the proposed change seems to be pretty limited. :) At least it gets rid of IS_ERR_OR_NULL which is used wrongly more often than not. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html