On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 04:44:52PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 01:10:01PM +0530, Suman Tripathi wrote: > > [suman] : So the posted version is acceptable ? Any others comments on this > > patch ? > > I'm suggesting setting ctx->cs_mux to NULL on failure. IOW, > > if (res) { > ctx->csr_mux = devm_ioremap_resources(); > if (IS_ERR(ctx->csr_mux)) { > print warning or something; > ctx->csr_mux = NULL; > } > } A much better approach is: if (res) { void __iomem *csr = devm_ioremap_resources(); if (IS_ERR(csr)) { ret = ERR_PTR(csr); dev_xxx(); goto err; } ctx->csr_mux = csr; } Then you never end up in the situation where csr_mux contains an error pointer value - and is much more obvious that is the case. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.5Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html