On 02.08.19 14:12, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 10:04:10AM +0000, Schrempf Frieder wrote: >> From: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schre...@kontron.de> >> >> As it is allowed to use the mctrl_gpio_* functions before >> initialization (as the 8250 driver does according to 434be0ae7aa7), > > Actually I was surprised some time ago that 8250 used serial_mctrl > without first initializing it and expecting it to work. I didn't look in > detail, but I wouldn't go so far to call this "allowed". The commit > itself calls it "workaround" which seems a better match.
Ok, but if this is considered to be a workaround and as the 8250 driver does not use mctrl_gpio_to_gpiod(), we should maybe just drop this patch instead of encouraging others to use mctrl_gpio before initialization. I'm really not sure what's best, so depending on what you will propose, I'll send a new version of this patch with adjusted commit message or not. By the way, Uwe and Fabio: Thanks for your reviews! > >> it seems appropriate to have a NULL check in all of the functions. >> Otherwise the mctrl_gpio_to_gpiod() function is prone to be used >> in a context that can lead to a NULL pointer dereference. >> >> Signed-off-by: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schre...@kontron.de> > > Best regards > Uwe >
