On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 05:06:42PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote: > 03.10.2020 09:59, Nicolin Chen пишет: > > static int tegra_smmu_of_xlate(struct device *dev, > > struct of_phandle_args *args) > > { > > + struct platform_device *iommu_pdev = of_find_device_by_node(args->np); > > + struct tegra_mc *mc = platform_get_drvdata(iommu_pdev); > > u32 id = args->args[0]; > > > > + put_device(&iommu_pdev->dev); > > + > > + if (!mc || !mc->smmu) > > + return -EPROBE_DEFER; > > I'm not very excited by seeing code in the patches that can't be > explained by the patch authors and will appreciate if you could provide > a detailed explanation about why this NULL checking is needed because I > think it is unneeded, especially given that other IOMMU drivers don't > have such check. This function could be called from of_iommu_configure(), which is a part of other driver's probe(). So I think it's safer to have a check. Yet, given mc driver is added to the "arch_initcall" stage, you are probably right that there's no really need at this moment because all clients should be called after mc/smmu are inited. So I'll resend a v6, if that makes you happy. > I'm asking this question second time now, please don't ignore review > comments next time. I think I missed your reply or misunderstood it.