Messages in this thread | | | From | Michał Mirosław <> | Date | Wed, 6 Apr 2011 11:36:46 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] driver core: let dev_set_drvdata return int instead of void as it can fail |
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2011/4/6 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>: > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> > --- > Hello, > > I wasn't sure what to return when dev_set_drvdata is called with > dev=NULL. I choosed 0, but -EINVAL would be OK for me, too. What do you > think?
Why not just BUG_ON(!dev)? Is there a case when you might call this with dev==NULL that's not a driver bug?
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