Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] hwmon: Add driver for Texas Instruments TMP464 and TMP468

[Agathe Porte <agathe.porte@nokia.com>]

Hi Guenter,

Le 3/15/2022 à 2:22 AM, Guenter Roeck a écrit :
> If of_property_read_string() returns an error, it will not set the 
> pointer
> to &data->channel[channel].label, which by default is NULL because the
> data structure was allocated with devm_kzalloc(). That means 
> tmp464_is_visible()
> will disable the label attribute. I don't see a problem with the current
> code.

Thanks for the explanation. I agree that there is no problem on this point.

> There are lots of examples in the kernel where the return value from
> of_property_read_string() is silently ignored. Not a single one of
> those uses a (void) typecast. I don't really want to start making
> such changes just to make static analyzers happy.

I have to disagree here. Because something has always (not) be done in 
the past should not be a reason to (not) do it in the future out of pure 
habit. I did not suggest to add the (void) casts in existing code: I 
agree it would be a burden with no real added value.

But making static analyzers happy seems justified *for new code*. It 
also makes *other developers* more confident, because with the cast we 
are sure that not checking the return value is very intentional.

Please enlighten me if there are any downsides that I did not think of 
and that would block this one-line change.

Best regards,

Agathe.