[PATCH 3/7] Revert "nvmem: core: Print error on wrong bits DT property"

Sven Peter via B4 Relay devnull+sven.svenpeter.dev at kernel.org
Sat May 10 00:44:43 PDT 2025


From: Janne Grunau <j at jannau.net>

This reverts commit def3173d4f17b37cecbd74d7c269a080b0b01598.

Now that the core supports accessing bits even beyond the first byte
this additional error check is no longer required.

Signed-off-by: Janne Grunau <j at jannau.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Peter <sven at svenpeter.dev>
---
 drivers/nvmem/core.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
index 02081c93fa467e5448bd78a4920072d437365fb9..ef1f59b34d262a533fb601d87fec123061cfff81 100644
--- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
@@ -837,11 +837,6 @@ static int nvmem_add_cells_from_dt(struct nvmem_device *nvmem, struct device_nod
 		if (addr && len == (2 * sizeof(u32))) {
 			info.bit_offset = be32_to_cpup(addr++);
 			info.nbits = be32_to_cpup(addr);
-			if (info.bit_offset >= BITS_PER_BYTE || info.nbits < 1) {
-				dev_err(dev, "nvmem: invalid bits on %pOF\n", child);
-				of_node_put(child);
-				return -EINVAL;
-			}
 		}
 
 		info.np = of_node_get(child);

-- 
2.34.1





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