[RESEND PATCH v5 3/5] drivers core: allow probe_err accept integer and pointer types
Andrzej Hajda
a.hajda at samsung.com
Wed Jun 24 15:39:57 EDT 2020
On 24.06.2020 17:16, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 2020-06-24 16:04, Mark Brown wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 03:25:33PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
>>
>>> And yeah, anyone who pipes up suggesting that places where an
>>> ERR_PTR value
>>> could be passed to probe_err() could simply refactor IS_ERR() checks
>>> with
>>> more uses of the god-awful PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() obfuscator gets a long
>>> stare of
>>> disapproval...
>>
>> We could also have a probe_err_ptr() or something that took an ERR_PTR()
>> instead if there really were an issue with explicitly doing this.
>
> Yeah, for all my lyrical objection, a static inline <blah>_ptr_err()
> helper to wrap <blah>_err() with sensible type checking might actually
> be an OK compromise if people really feel strongly for having that
> utility.
I have proposed such thing in my previous iteration[1], except it was
macro because of variadic arguments.
With current version we save 8 chars and hacky macro, with the old
version we save only 4 chars and more clear construct - less tempting
solution for me.
Personally I prefer the current version - it does not seems to me more
dangerous than all these PTR_ERR, IS_ERR,ERR_PTR helpers, but can
prevent expression split across multiple lines due to 80char limit.
Probably the simplest solution is to drop this patch, I will do it then.
[1]:
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/20181220102247.4911-4-a.hajda@samsung.com/
Regards
Andrzej
>
> (and then we can debate whether it should also convert NULL to -ENOMEM
> and !IS_ERR to 0... :D)
>
> Robin.
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