[PATCH 4/9] pinctrl: samsung: Use generic of_device_get_match_data helper

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk at kernel.org
Mon Dec 26 01:41:42 PST 2016


On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 02:44:26PM +0900, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> 2016-12-25 21:56 GMT+09:00 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org>:
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 01:24:44PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> >> Replace custom code with generic helper.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-samsung.c | 9 ++++-----
> >>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-samsung.c b/drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-samsung.c
> >> index 4d9262051ff1..a6c2ea74e0f3 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-samsung.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-samsung.c
> >> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
> >>  #include <linux/err.h>
> >>  #include <linux/gpio.h>
> >>  #include <linux/irqdomain.h>
> >> +#include <linux/of_device.h>
> >>  #include <linux/spinlock.h>
> >>  #include <linux/syscore_ops.h>
> >>
> >> @@ -967,15 +968,13 @@ static int samsung_gpiolib_unregister(struct platform_device *pdev,
> >>       return 0;
> >>  }
> >>
> >> -static const struct of_device_id samsung_pinctrl_dt_match[];
> >> -
> >>  /* retrieve the soc specific data */
> >>  static const struct samsung_pin_ctrl *
> >>  samsung_pinctrl_get_soc_data(struct samsung_pinctrl_drv_data *d,
> >>                            struct platform_device *pdev)
> >>  {
> >>       int id;
> >> -     const struct of_device_id *match;
> >> +     const struct samsung_pin_ctrl *match_data;
> >>       struct device_node *node = pdev->dev.of_node;
> >>       struct device_node *np;
> >>       const struct samsung_pin_bank_data *bdata;
> >> @@ -990,8 +989,8 @@ static int samsung_gpiolib_unregister(struct platform_device *pdev,
> >>               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to get alias id\n");
> >>               return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
> >>       }
> >> -     match = of_match_node(samsung_pinctrl_dt_match, node);
> >> -     ctrl = (struct samsung_pin_ctrl *)match->data + id;
> >> +     match_data = of_device_get_match_data(&pdev->dev);
> >> +     ctrl = match_data + id;
> >
> > Either you need a check for match_data != NULL or just remove match_data
> > and:
> >         ctrl = of_device_get_match_data();
> >         ctrl += id;
> >
> > Actually match_data can be removed even with the check for non-NULL...
> 
> I don't think this function can ever return NULL if the match array
> contains a non-NULL value for each compatible string and the driver
> can be probed only by DT.

Practically it cannot (or it should not) but defensive coding is a good
practice...

> But you still need to cast the match data pointer to the correct type
> and using a variable for it IMHO makes the code cleaner.

What do you mean by casting through variable? match_data and ctrl are
the same type so there is no change by intermediate variable. It just
obfuscates the code.

BR,
Krzysztof



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