On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:57:06 +0530
"Thomas, Sujith" <sujith.thomas@intel.com> wrote:

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> From: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@intel.com>
> 
> Added sanity checks for interface functions in thermal with
> other modules such as fan, processor, video etc..
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/thermal/thermal.c |   69
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------

The patch is fairly seriously wordwrapped.

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>  1 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.24-rc3/drivers/thermal/thermal.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.24-rc3.orig/drivers/thermal/thermal.c
> +++ linux-2.6.24-rc3/drivers/thermal/thermal.c
> @@ -301,13 +301,27 @@ int thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device(str
>  {
>  	struct thermal_cooling_device_instance *dev;
>  	struct thermal_cooling_device_instance *pos;
> +	struct thermal_zone_device *pos1;
> +	struct thermal_cooling_device *pos2;
>  	int result;
>  
> +	if (!tz || !cdev)
> +		return -EINVAL;

Is this change actually needed?  It's sloppy for a caller to be passing
invalid arguments into a callee, and it's not good for the callee to just
hide that sloppiness.

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> -		return NULL;
> +		return  ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

the patch adds several spaces like this in places where we don't normally
put them.


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