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[ Upstream commit 58e4a2d27d3255e4e8c507fdc13734dccc9fc4c7 ] The extcon_get_extcon_dev() function returns error pointers on error, NULL when it's a -EPROBE_DEFER defer situation, and ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) when the CONFIG_EXTCON option is disabled. This is very complicated for the callers to handle and a number of them had bugs that would lead to an Oops. In real life, there are two things which prevented crashes. First, error pointers would only be returned if there was bug in the caller where they passed a NULL "extcon_name" and none of them do that. Second, only two out of the eight drivers will build when CONFIG_EXTCON is disabled. The normal way to write this would be to return -EPROBE_DEFER directly when appropriate and return NULL when CONFIG_EXTCON is disabled. Then the error handling is simple and just looks like: dev->edev = extcon_get_extcon_dev(acpi_dev_name(adev)); if (IS_ERR(dev->edev)) return PTR_ERR(dev->edev); For the two drivers which can build with CONFIG_EXTCON disabled, then extcon_get_extcon_dev() will now return NULL which is not treated as an error and the probe will continue successfully. Those two drivers are "typec_fusb302" and "max8997-battery". In the original code, the typec_fusb302 driver had an 800ms hang in tcpm_get_current_limit() but now that function is a no-op. For the max8997-battery driver everything should continue working as is. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.