[PATCH v3 3/3] drm: bridge: anx78xx: Add anx78xx driver support.

Enric Balletbo i Serra enric.balletbo at collabora.com
Thu Apr 14 14:08:43 UTC 2016


Hi Emil,

On 14/04/16 16:06, Emil Velikov wrote:
> Hi Enric,
>
> On 14 April 2016 at 14:42, Enric Balletbo i Serra
> <enric.balletbo at collabora.com> wrote:
>> The patch was implemented first without OR'ing error codes. The reason why I
>> changed this is because I received the comments that checking the error on
>> every regmap_* didn't help the readability of the driver and is likely to
>> not fail if the first call doesn't fail.
>>
>> For example, originally the code was like this:
>>    http://pastebin.com/rPgyji8k
>> but I changed to this
>>    http://pastebin.com/rPgyji8k
>>
> Both links are the same ;-) But I believe we all get what you meant.
>

Ooops, sorry. This is the other link

http://pastebin.com/e2KpGxHy

> Just a side note: many other drivers in DRM subsystem, inconsistently
> check the return value of the regmap API. Note sure how likely is any
> of it [regmap_foo] to fail and/or how determined people are to handle
> every possible error case.
>
> -Emil
>

Enric


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