Re: [PATCH] ASoC: wm8804: fix error handling code

[Vasiliy Kulikov]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 13:36 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:15:55PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 13:00 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > ...it's not clear to me that this change is an improvement - it'll make
> > > the driver more fragile in the face of errors, I don't see a benefit in
> > > refusing to register the variant for one bus if the other fails?
> 
> > I tried to implement your variant with depca driver in past, but it was
> > rejected by David Miller:
> > http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2010/07/12/9
> 
> I disagree with David here, and in any case if you're going to make a
> style change like this they really ought to be applied over all drivers
> rather than just a few individual ones.

It is not greppable situation to simply change the behavior of all
drivers.  I was looking for memory leak bugs in drivers/net/ and fixed
some of them.  Manual looking through _all_ drivers takes much more
time.  In general I try to search for repeatable bugs with coccinelle,
but it is rare case.


Thanks,

-- 
Vasiliy
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