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From: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
To: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: ad5398: Fix return value of ad5398_write_reg
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:42:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56BDC53B.9030506@analog.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455185823.6323.1.camel@ingics.com>

On 02/11/2016 11:17 AM, Axel Lin wrote:
> i2c_master_send() returns the number of bytes written on success.
> So current code returns 2 if ad5398_write_reg() success.
> This return value is propagated to .set_current_limit, .enable and .disable
> callbacks of regulator_ops. This can be a problem, for example, if the
> users test if the return value of regulator_set_current_limit() is 0.
> Fix it by making ad5398_write_reg() return 0 on success.
>
> Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>

Acked-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>

> ---
>   drivers/regulator/ad5398.c | 6 ++++--
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/ad5398.c b/drivers/regulator/ad5398.c
> index ea50a88..8b0f788 100644
> --- a/drivers/regulator/ad5398.c
> +++ b/drivers/regulator/ad5398.c
> @@ -58,10 +58,12 @@ static int ad5398_write_reg(struct i2c_client *client, const unsigned short data
>
>   	val = cpu_to_be16(data);
>   	ret = i2c_master_send(client, (char *)&val, 2);
> -	if (ret < 0)
> +	if (ret != 2) {
>   		dev_err(&client->dev, "I2C write error\n");
> +		return ret < 0 ? ret : -EIO;
> +	}
>
> -	return ret;
> +	return 0;
>   }
>
>   static int ad5398_get_current_limit(struct regulator_dev *rdev)
>


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      reply	other threads:[~2016-02-12 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-11 10:17 [PATCH] regulator: ad5398: Fix return value of ad5398_write_reg Axel Lin
2016-02-12 11:42 ` Michael Hennerich [this message]

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