Re: [hwmon PATCH v2 6/8] hwmon: (adt7470) Use cached PWM frequency value

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Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 1 potential issue(s) to consider:
- [Medium] A partial register write failure in pwm1_freq_set leaves the cached pwm_freq permanently out of sync with the actual hardware state.
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--- Patch [6]: [hwmon PATCH v2 6/8] hwmon: (adt7470) Use cached PWM frequency value ---
commit 3b9b6b91fb202f2983f66278540c1017bb53f4e6
Author: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@gmail.com>

hwmon: (adt7470) Use cached PWM frequency value

This commit updates the ADT7470 driver to use a cached PWM frequency
value instead of querying the hardware on each read. The cache is 
initialized during probe and updated after a successful write operation 
to prevent exposing negative error codes through sysfs if a read fails.

> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c b/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c
> index c6fc7d38d698c..1fbca4869b7b6 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c

[ ... ]

> @@ -832,6 +835,10 @@ static int pwm1_freq_set(struct device *dev, long freq)
>  	err = regmap_update_bits(data->regmap, ADT7470_REG_CFG_2,
>  				 ADT7470_FREQ_MASK,
>  				 index << ADT7470_FREQ_SHIFT);
> +	if (err < 0)
> +		goto out;
> +
> +	data->pwm_freq = closest_freq;
>  out:
>  	mutex_unlock(&data->lock);

[Severity: Medium]
Does this leave the cached pwm_freq out of sync with the hardware if the
second register write fails?

If regmap_update_bits() fails for ADT7470_REG_CFG_2, the function aborts
and jumps to out without updating data->pwm_freq. However, the first
register (ADT7470_REG_CFG) may have already been updated successfully right
above this snippet.

Because adt7470_pwm_read() now relies solely on this cache instead of
reading the hardware, sysfs reads will permanently return the old frequency
value even though the hardware might be operating in a mixed frequency
state.

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