Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Apr 2016 15:06:27 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] drm: bridge: anx78xx: Add anx78xx driver support. | From | Emil Velikov <> |
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Hi Enric,
On 14 April 2016 at 14:42, Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com> wrote: > The patch was implemented first without OR'ing error codes. The reason why I > changed this is because I received the comments that checking the error on > every regmap_* didn't help the readability of the driver and is likely to > not fail if the first call doesn't fail. > > For example, originally the code was like this: > http://pastebin.com/rPgyji8k > but I changed to this > http://pastebin.com/rPgyji8k > Both links are the same ;-) But I believe we all get what you meant.
Just a side note: many other drivers in DRM subsystem, inconsistently check the return value of the regmap API. Note sure how likely is any of it [regmap_foo] to fail and/or how determined people are to handle every possible error case.
-Emil
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