[PATCH v3] i2c: designware: add reset interface

Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com
Wed Jan 4 07:35:19 PST 2017


On Wed, 2017-01-04 at 15:55 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday, December 23, 2016 9:40:51 PM CET Zhangfei Gao wrote:
> > @@ -176,6 +177,14 @@ static int dw_i2c_plat_probe(struct
> > platform_device *pdev)
> >         dev->irq = irq;
> >         platform_set_drvdata(pdev, dev);
> >  
> > +       dev->rst = devm_reset_control_get_optional_exclusive(&pdev-
> > >dev, NULL);
> > +       if (IS_ERR(dev->rst)) {
> > +               if (PTR_ERR(dev->rst) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
> > +                       return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> > +       } else {
> > +               reset_control_deassert(dev->rst);
> > +       }
> > +
> 
> Sorry for the late reply, I only now stumbled over this. I think it's
> generally wrong to ignore any error aside from -EPROBE_DEFER. It's
> better to single-out the error conditions you want to ignore (e.g.
> no reset specified) and ignore those but return an error for
> all other problems.

Which means that reset framework whenever work _optional is used should
return error iff (mind two f:s) there is a problem with existing
control.

> 
> > @@ -270,10 +280,18 @@ static int dw_i2c_plat_probe(struct
> > platform_device *pdev)
> >         }
> >  
> >         r = i2c_dw_probe(dev);
> > -       if (r && !dev->pm_runtime_disabled)
> > -               pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
> > +       if (r)
> > +               goto exit_probe;
> >  
> >         return r;
> > +
> > +exit_probe:
> > +       if (!dev->pm_runtime_disabled)
> > +               pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
> > +exit_reset:
> > +       if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dev->rst))
> > +               reset_control_assert(dev->rst);
> > +       return r;
> > 
> 
> try to avoid the IS_ERR_OR_NULL() check, it usually indicates either
> a bad interface, or that the interface is used wrong.

Please, fix reset framework first than.

For my understanding:
It should return NULL for optional reset control.
It should not fail on NULL argument.


> In this case, I think we can't get here with a NULL dev->rst
> pointer, so it's better to only check IS_ERR, or to explicitly
> set the pointer to NULL in case there is no reset line.
> 
> 	Arnd

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy



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