[Intel-gfx] ✗ Fi.CI.CHECKPATCH: warning for series starting with [1/4] drm/i915: kill intel_display_power_well_is_enabled()

[Paulo Zanoni]

Em Qui, 2018-08-09 às 08:29 +0200, Michal Wajdeczko escreveu:
> On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 00:58:53 +0200, Paulo Zanoni  
> <paulo.r.zanoni at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Em Qua, 2018-08-08 às 22:22 +0000, Patchwork escreveu:
> > > == Series Details ==
> > > 
> > > Series: series starting with [1/4] drm/i915: kill
> > > intel_display_power_well_is_enabled()
> > > URL   : https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/47908/
> > > State : warning
> > > 
> > > == Summary ==
> > > 
> > > $ dim checkpatch origin/drm-tip
> > > 94cddb6f9752 drm/i915: kill intel_display_power_well_is_enabled()
> > > dfb09a8944b0 drm/i915: BUG() if we can't lookup_power_well()
> > > -:31: WARNING:AVOID_BUG: Avoid crashing the kernel - try using
> > > WARN_ON & recovery code rather than BUG() or BUG_ON()
> > > #31: FILE: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_runtime_pm.c:1124:
> > > +	BUG();
> > 
> > See the commit message of patch 2, Mr. Robot. I don't think it's
> > worth
> > adding checking code in the callers, and replacing the current null
> > pointer dereference with a BUG() is an improvement IMHO.
> > 
> > If anybody disagrees with this, please say so.
> 
> other option could be to use WARN_ON to make Mr. Robot happy and
> then return first/last/default power well to make callers happy

Yeah, that's probably an improvement. I'll submit a new version.
Thanks!

> 
> /michal