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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: GShark Jeong <gshark.jeong@gmail.com>
Cc: Liam Gridwood <lrg@ti.com>, Daniel Jeong <daniel.jeong@ti.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] regulator: new driver for LP8755
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 16:27:42 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121203072741.GC9848@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPqQCJW6TLhxRkOdw6JVe1qkepDDKdt+wagAgd5VCCsE3y6Qog@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:24:43PM +0900, GShark Jeong wrote:
> 2012/12/3 Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> > On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 01:44:24PM +0900, Daniel Jeong wrote:

> > > +     if (ret < 0)
> > > +             goto out_i2c_error;
> > > +     dev_info(pchip->dev, "lp8755 : chip ID is 0x%x\n", regval);

> > This isn't actually checking anything except the I/O.  Can the chip ID
> > really vary?

> My configurations are already programmed in otp memory of chip as default
> values.
> So this comment for to others who are using different initial values with
> default data.
> I will drop it.

It seems like a better fix would be to add a check for the ID and fail
if the OTP value doesn't match, that way the driver won't try to run on
unsupported hardware.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-03  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-03  4:44 [PATCH 0/1] regulator: new driver for LP8755 Daniel Jeong
2012-12-03  4:44 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Daniel Jeong
2012-12-03  6:25   ` Wanlong Gao
2012-12-03  6:36   ` Mark Brown
     [not found]     ` <CAPqQCJW6TLhxRkOdw6JVe1qkepDDKdt+wagAgd5VCCsE3y6Qog@mail.gmail.com>
2012-12-03  7:27       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-12-03  6:11 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Mark Brown

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