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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti.com>
Cc: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>, Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com>,
	Markus Elfring <markus.elfring@web.de>,
	Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irqchip/ti-sci-inta: Use ERR_CAST inlined function instead of ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(...))
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 11:24:24 +0109	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <29a69991ec7726d133e54a2891159e86@www.loen.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <670cd9a2-2083-bb5e-7bfc-58d5c90ec756@ti.com>

On 2019-11-11 04:45, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
> On 05/11/19 5:00 PM, Markus Elfring wrote:
>> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
>> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 12:19:39 +0100
>>
>> A coccicheck run provided information like the following.
>>
>> drivers/irqchip/irq-ti-sci-inta.c:250:9-16: WARNING: ERR_CAST can be 
>> used
>> with vint_desc.
>>
>> Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/err_cast.cocci
>>
>> Thus adjust the exception handling in one if branch.
>>
>> Fixes: 9f1463b86c13277d0bd88d5ee359577ef40f4da7 
>> ("irqchip/ti-sci-inta: Add support for Interrupt Aggregator driver")
>
> Fixes: 9f1463b86c13 ("irqchip/ti-sci-inta: Add support for Interrupt 
> Aggregator driver")

I fundamentally disagree with the "Fixes:" tag. This isn't a fix,
just a minor readability improvement. Flagging things as "Fixes:"
ends up triggering all kind of unnecessary backports to -stable.

> With this:
>
> Reviewed-by: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti.com>

I'll otherwise take this patch in -next.

Thanks,

         M.
-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-11 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-05 11:30 [PATCH] irqchip/ti-sci-inta: Use ERR_CAST inlined function instead of ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(...)) Markus Elfring
2019-11-11  3:35 ` Lokesh Vutla
2019-11-11 10:15   ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2019-11-13 11:05     ` Lokesh Vutla

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