[PATCH RFC 2/3] ARM: regulator: add Freescale MXS regulator driver

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Wed Sep 10 08:13:16 PDT 2014


On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 03:18:53PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 08:17:17PM +0100, Stefan Wahren wrote:

Ugh, this looks like it might be a regulator driver but since the
subject line was "ARM: " I deleted it unread - if your changelog looks
different to all the other changelogs in the subsystem it probably needs
changing.

> > >> +       sreg = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*sreg), GFP_KERNEL);
> > >> +       if (!sreg)
> > >> +               return -ENOMEM;
> > >> +       sreg->initdata = initdata;
> > >> +       sreg->name = of_get_property(np, "regulator-name", NULL);

> > > I'm not keen on using of_get_property here. We have no idea if
> > > regulator-name is even a string (it should be, but we have no
> > > guarantee).

> > Better using of_property_read_string?

> Yes. That will check the value is NUL-terminated, at least.

Or just remove the property entirely...  without having seen the
bindings if we're specifying the name of the device via the device tree
something seems wrong.
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