FW: Regulator API ignored return values
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Tue Mar 12 10:03:09 EDT 2013
On Tuesday 12 March 2013, Kevin Liu wrote:
> > - regulator_enable(host->vqmmc);
> > + ret = regulator_enable(host->vqmmc);
> > if (!regulator_is_supported_voltage(host->vqmmc, 1700000,
> > 1950000))
> > caps[1] &= ~(SDHCI_SUPPORT_SDR104 |
> > SDHCI_SUPPORT_SDR50 |
> > SDHCI_SUPPORT_DDR50);
> > + if (ret) {
> > + pr_warn("%s: Failed to enable vqmmc regulator: %d\n",
> > + mmc_hostname(mmc), ret);
>
> Need add regulator_put here since regulator_get has succeed?
Hmm, we still don't actually bail out if the error is encountered, so
the reference count is balanced with the current patch, but I maybe
a failed regulator_enable() should actually be a fatal error?
If we do that, using devm_regulator_get() would be a nice way to
track the reference counts.
Arnd
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