[patch] drm/i915: checking IS_ERR() instead of NULL

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Thu Apr 30 07:47:13 PDT 2015


On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 03:43:02PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 05:30:50PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > We switched from calling i915_gem_alloc_context_obj() to calling
> > i915_gem_alloc_object() so the error handling needs to be updated to
> > check for NULL instead of IS_ERR().
> 
> I had a patch to change i915_gem_alloc_object() to report the correct
> error rather than NULL - which can come in surprisingly handy at
> times...

That also works, of course.  Send it.  :)

regards,
dan carpenter



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