On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 03:04:48PM +0000, Vokáč Michal wrote:
> On 12.10.2018 10:57, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 09:33:26AM +0000, Vokáč Michal wrote:
[...]
> >> +static int imx_pwm_init_pinctrl_info(struct imx_chip *imx_chip,
> >> +		struct platform_device *pdev)
> >> +{
> >> +	imx_chip->pinctrl = devm_pinctrl_get(&pdev->dev);
> >> +	if (!imx_chip->pinctrl || IS_ERR(imx_chip->pinctrl)) {
> >> +		dev_info(&pdev->dev, "can not get pinctrl\n");
> >> +		return PTR_ERR(imx_chip->pinctrl);
> >> +	}
> >> +
> >> +	imx_chip->pinctrl_pins_pwm = pinctrl_lookup_state(imx_chip->pinctrl,
> >> +			"pwm");
> >> +	imx_chip->pinctrl_pins_gpio = pinctrl_lookup_state(imx_chip->pinctrl,
> >> +			"gpio");
> >> +	imx_chip->pwm_gpiod = devm_gpiod_get_optional(&pdev->dev, "pwm",
> >> +			GPIOD_IN);
> >> +
> >> +	if (PTR_ERR(imx_chip->pwm_gpiod) == -EPROBE_DEFER) {
> > 
> > You must not use PTR_ERR on a value that might not contain an error
> > pointer.
> 
> OK, thank you for valuable info.
> So it seems like the I2C folks are in troubles as well:
> 
> 	https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c#L996

There's nothing inherently wrong with doing it like the above, just
maybe slightly unusual. PTR_ERR() is really just casting from a pointer
to an integer, so if the pointer happens to contain the value
-EPROBE_DEFER, then the above will be true. If it contains a valid
pointer, the above will be false, so it does exactly what you want.

Perhaps a more idiomatic way to write this would be:

	if (IS_ERR(imx_chip->pwm_gpiod)) {
		if (PTR_ERR(imx_chip->pwm_gpiod) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
			return -EPROBE_DEFER;
	}

But that's not much clearer than what you have, so feel free to keep it
that way.

Thierry