On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 09:10:38AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote: > 30.09.2020 08:49, Nicolin Chen пишет: > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 08:11:52AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote: > >> 30.09.2020 03:30, Nicolin Chen пишет: > >>> + /* An invalid mc pointer means mc and smmu drivers are not ready */ > >>> + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mc)) > >> > >> tegra_get_memory_controller() doesn't return NULL. > > > > Well, I don't want to assume that it'd do that forever, and the > > NULL check of IS_ERR_OR_NULL is marked "unlikely" so it doesn't > > hurt to have. > > > > I don't see any reasons why it won't do that forever. > > Secondly, public function can't be changed randomly without updating all > the callers. > > Hence there is no need to handle cases that can't ever happen and it > hurts readability of the code + original error code is missed.
I don't quite understand why an extra "_OR_NULL" would hurt readability....but I'd take a step back and use IS_ERR(). _______________________________________________ iommu mailing list iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/iommu
