Re: [PATCH 1/5] regmap: return ERR_PTR instead of NULL in regmap_init

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Nov 14 2011 - 16:44:57 EST


On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:40:15AM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> The regmap_init documentation states that it will either return a pointer to a
> valid regmap structure or a ERR_PTR in case of an error. Currently it returns a
> NULL pointer in case no bus or no config was given. Since NULL is not a
> ERR_PTR a caller might assume that it is a pointer to a valid regmap structure,
> so return a ERR_PTR(-EINVAL) instead.

Applied, thanks.
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