Re: [PATCH 1/2] mfd: sec-core: Remove duplicated device type from sec_pmic

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

> > > +	unsigned long device_type;
> > >  	int ret;
> > >  
> > >  	sec_pmic = devm_kzalloc(&i2c->dev, sizeof(struct sec_pmic_dev),
> > > @@ -262,7 +263,7 @@ static int sec_pmic_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c,
> > >  	sec_pmic->dev = &i2c->dev;
> > >  	sec_pmic->i2c = i2c;
> > >  	sec_pmic->irq = i2c->irq;
> > > -	sec_pmic->type = sec_i2c_get_driver_data(i2c, id);
> > > +	device_type = sec_i2c_get_driver_data(i2c, id);
> > 
> > Better to change the return type of 'sec_i2c_get_driver_data()' than
> > to rely on a cast later on.
> 
> Hmmm... it was like that before Pankaj Dubey change (8f695de515b9).
> Solving that issue (-Wpointer-to-int-cast) along with keeping 'int' as
> return type of sec_i2c_get_driver_data would lead to one of:
> 1. Using temporary variable in ec_i2c_get_driver_data just for cast.
> 
> static inline int sec_i2c_get_driver_data(struct i2c_client *i2c,
> 						const struct i2c_device_id *id)
> {
> 	unsigned long type;
> 
> 	if (i2c->dev.of_node) {
> 		const struct of_device_id *match;
> 		match = of_match_node(sec_dt_match, i2c->dev.of_node);
> 		type = (unsigned long)match->data;
> 	}
> 	type = id->driver_data;
> 
> 	return (int)type;
> }
> 
> or
> 2. Double cast: (int)(unsigned long)match->data;
> 
> For me both are kind a ugly... What do you think?

I'm saying, why don't you change everything; the return value of
sec_i2c_get_driver_data(), pdata->device_type and device_type to long
or unsigned long? Then the only cast you need to do is from void*.

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Lee Jones
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