Re: [PATCH] phy: fix error handling

From	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] phy: fix error handling
Date	2016-07-04 11:00 +0200
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On Mon, 4 Jul 2016, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 01:22:50PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Monday 04 July 2016 02:38 AM, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > > I will resubmit in the coming days.
> > >
> > >    return PTR_ERR(phy->clk);
> > > should also be updated.
> >
> > while at that, also fix your $subject to something like
> > "phy: sun9i-usb: fix error handling"
> >
>
> Yes.  Also the first patch should have used that same prefix.
> 9c3b44302636 ('phy: Add driver to support individual USB PHYs on sun9i')
>
> We have this problem quite often, but other subsystems have fixed it
> because they start using the correct prefix when the driver is added.
> The second patch for this driver had the same issue:
> 9c3b44302636 ('phy: Add driver to support individual USB PHYs on sun9i')

Is there any hope to some day have a deterministic algorithm?  Something
that get_maintainers could figure out.

julia

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[PATCH] phy: fix error handling Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> - 2016-07-03 08:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] phy: fix error handling Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2016-07-03 22:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] phy: fix error handling Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> - 2016-07-03 23:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] phy: fix error handling Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com> - 2016-07-04 10:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] phy: fix error handling Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> - 2016-07-04 11:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] phy: fix error handling Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2016-07-04 11:00 +0200

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