error handler for same-device

Signed-off-by: vladmandic <mandic00@live.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
   - **ROCm** futher work on advanced configuration and tuning, thanks @resonantsky  
     now covers both ROCm on Windows and Linux  
     see *main interface -> scripts -> rocm advanced config*  
+  - **OpenVINO** update to `openvino==2026.1.0`
   - **SDNQ** add quant support to `nn.Embedding` type  
 - **Features**
   - **nudenet** add `LlavaGuard` and `QwenGuard` as image safety evaulation models
@@ -65,6 +66,7 @@
   - eliminate `api` auth security bypass
   - multiple `schedulers` signature corrections
   - multiple models reverse model classification
+  - normalize device none error
 
 ## Update for 2026-04-01
 

TODO.md

@@ -1,5 +1,21 @@
 # TODO
 
+## Release
+
+- Review: feat/tag-dictionaries
+- Review: er-sde-solver-scheduler
+- Test: Zeta-Chroma
+- Test: Anima-Preview-3
+- Test: SDXS-1B
+- Test: VIBE-Image-Edit
+- Test: Bria-FIBO
+- Test: Lumina-DiMOO
+- Test: Step1X-Edit
+- Code: prompt encode for Bria-FIBO: <https://github.com/Bria-AI/Fibo-Edit/blob/master/src/fibo_edit/fibo_edit_vlm.py>
+- Port: ERNIE-Image (merged, unpublished)
+- Port: NucleusMoE-Image (merged, unpublished)
+- Port: JoyAI-Image-Edit (in-progress, published)
+
 ## Internal
 
 - Feature: implement `unload_auxiliary_models`
@@ -7,6 +23,7 @@
 - Feature: RIFE in processing
 - Feature: SeedVR2 in processing
 - Feature: Add video models to `Reference`
+- Feature: Add <https://huggingface.co/briaai/RMBG-2.0> to REMBG
 - Deploy: Lite vs Expert mode
 - Engine: [mmgp](https://github.com/deepbeepmeep/mmgp)
 - Engine: `TensorRT` acceleration
@@ -52,7 +69,6 @@ TODO: Investigate which models are diffusers-compatible and prioritize!
 - [nVidia Cosmos-Predict-2.5](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Cosmos-Predict2.5-2B)
 - [Liquid (unified multimodal generator)](https://github.com/FoundationVision/Liquid)
 - [Tencent HY-WU](https://huggingface.co/tencent/HY-WU)
-- [JoyAI Image Edit](https://huggingface.co/jdopensource/JoyAI-Image-Edit)
 - [nVidia Cosmos-Transfer-2.5](https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/pull/13066)
 
 ### Video

modules/devices.py

@@ -673,6 +673,8 @@ def test_for_nans(x, where):
 
 
 def normalize_device(dev):
+    if dev is None:
+        return None
     if torch.device(dev).type in {"cpu", "mps", "meta"}:
         return torch.device(dev)
     if torch.device(dev).index is None:
@@ -681,6 +683,8 @@ def normalize_device(dev):
 
 
 def same_device(d1, d2):
+    if d1 is None or d2 is None:
+        return False
     if torch.device(d1).type != torch.device(d2).type:
         return False
     return normalize_device(d1) == normalize_device(d2)