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

Stefan Wahren info at lategoodbye.de
Wed Sep 10 10:32:36 PDT 2014


Hi Mark,

Am 10.09.2014 17:13, schrieb Mark Brown:
> 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.

sorry about the confusion, i will remove ARM in the next version.

Changelog? I didn't send a changelog because it was my first version.

Should i resend this version only to you?

>
>>>>> +       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.
>

BR Stefan



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