On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 04:23:13PM +0530, Himanshu Jha wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 08:55:27AM +0200, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 4:28 PM Bharath Vedartham <linux.bhar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > add code to handle the case when kzalloc fails to allocate memory to dev
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bharath Vedartham <linux.bhar@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c | 2 ++
> > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> > > index 4f5cd9f..93caa6b 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> > > @@ -1475,6 +1475,8 @@ struct iio_dev *iio_device_alloc(int sizeof_priv)
> > > }
> > > dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "iio:device%d", dev->id);
> > > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->buffer_list);
> > > + } else {
> > > + return NULL;
> >
> > I'd argue that this is a bit redundant, because `dev` is NULL, the
> > return below (return dev) will also return NULL.
Agreed. I will read the code more carefully from next time.
Thank you :)
>
> +1
>
> Also, subject title is incorrect.
>
> Always use:
>
> $ git log --oneline drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
>
> Use the most frequently tag/subject from the output of above
> command.
>
> "iio: core: ...." would be fine.
>
>
> --
> Himanshu Jha
> Undergraduate Student
> Department of Electronics & Communication
> Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology
Yes will do that from next time. I was of the understanding that this header
was good enough.
Thank you,
Bharath
