[PATCH v2 1/3] hwmon: (lm90) Add power control

[Guenter Roeck]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 11:33:13AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 08/08/2013 05:23 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 08/08/2013 02:47 AM, Wei Ni wrote:
> ...
> >> I think get_regulator() will return error values, not only
> >> -EPROBE_DEFER, so we should set data->lm90_reg to NULL to handle other
> >> error values.
> >>
> > Matter of opinion if you want to check for IS_ERR or NULL later on.
> 
> No, if regulator returns either:
> 
> * Something valid
> * Someting IS_ERR()
> 
> ... then everywhere has to check the value using IS_ERR().
> 
> If regulator returns either:
> 
> * Something valid
> * Someting NULL
> 
> ... then everywhere has to check the value against NULL.
> 
Other drivers calling get_regulator() don't check against NULL,
so it should not be needed here either.

Guenter

> checking against both IS_ERR() and NULL shouldn't ever happen, and
> likewise IS_ERR_OR_NULL() is deprecated.
>