From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>,
Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Cc: "Nuno Sá" <nuno.sa@analog.com>,
"Michael Hennerich" <Michael.Hennerich@analog.com>,
"Antoniu Miclaus" <antoniu.miclaus@analog.com>,
"David Lechner" <dlechner@baylibre.com>,
"Andy Shevchenko" <andy@kernel.org>,
linux@analog.com, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] iio: adc: ti-ads131m02: Drop redundant NULL check on devm_clk_get_enabled()
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 08:55:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11ddf106-9b69-4872-8635-aa934e4dc20a@oss.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aktFUqFUR0-Zx8uJ@ashevche-desk.local>
On 06/07/2026 08:04, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2026 at 12:37:12AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On Sun, 5 Jul 2026 19:24:39 +0200
>> Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> devm_clk_get_enabled() does not return NULL (only valid clock or ERR
>>> pointer), so simplify the code to drop redundant IS_ERR_OR_NULL().
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
>> See the stub.
>>
>> static inline struct clk *devm_clk_get_enabled(struct device *dev,
>> const char *id)
>> {
>> return NULL;
>> }
>> Not sure what the reasoning behind that is. Maybe that
>> clock could be already on?
>>
>> We could I guess make this driver depend on one of the clk
>> related configs, but today it doesn't. So to me this NULL check smells
>> of protection we don't need so I think the change is fine, but the
>> patch description should reflect that stub and it being considered
>> reasonable to plough on regardless.
>
> Ah, good catch! I have thought for a moment about this possibility, but I gave
> tag anyway as the stub thingy should be addressed separately anyway as there
> are many drivers (I think) that do not check for NULL.
Except these ~8 cases I found (I sent a bunch of patches), no one checks
for NULL...
Best regards,
Krzysztof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-06 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-05 17:24 Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-07-05 17:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] iio: adc: ade9000: Drop incorrect kerneldoc marker Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-07-05 17:37 ` Joshua Crofts
2026-07-05 17:50 ` Maxwell Doose
2026-07-05 23:37 ` Jonathan Cameron
2026-07-05 17:34 ` [PATCH 1/2] iio: adc: ti-ads131m02: Drop redundant NULL check on devm_clk_get_enabled() Joshua Crofts
2026-07-05 23:37 ` Jonathan Cameron
2026-07-06 6:01 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-07-06 6:04 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-07-06 6:55 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski [this message]
2026-07-06 7:03 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-07-06 6:01 ` Andy Shevchenko
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