[PATCH V2 3/3] net: ethernet: ti: Remove IS_ERR_OR_NULL checks for knav_dma_open_channel

Simon Horman horms at kernel.org
Wed Oct 1 08:58:58 PDT 2025


On Wed, Oct 01, 2025 at 05:54:16AM -0500, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> On 16:59-20250930, Jacob Keller wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 9/30/2025 5:16 AM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> > > knav_dma_open_channel now only returns NULL on failure instead of error
> > > pointers. Replace IS_ERR_OR_NULL checks with simple NULL checks.
> > > 
> > > Suggested-by: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com>
> > > ---
> > > Changes in V2:
> > > * renewed version
> > > * Dropped the fixes since code refactoring was involved.
> > > 
> > 
> > Whats the justification for splitting this apart from patch 1 of 3?
> > 
> > It seems like we ought to just do all this in a single patch. I don't
> > see the value in splitting this apart into 3 patches, unless someone
> > else on the list thinks it is valuable.
> 
> The only reason I have done that is to ensure the patches are
> bisectable. at patch #1, we are still returning -EINVAL, the driver
> should still function when we switch the return over to NULL.

Maybe we can simplify things and squash all three patches into one.
They seem inter-related.



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