Re: [PATCH] nvmem: fix nvmem_cell_read() return type for !CONFIG_NVMEM

[Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>]

On 08/06/16 17:40, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 09:26:46AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
>> With CONFIG_NVMEM, nvmem_cell_read() returns void *. With !CONFIG_NVMEM
>> it returns char *. Let's make that consistent. Also drop the
>> incorrect/inconsistent comment about char * above the nvmem_cell_read()
>> definition.
>>
>> drivers/thermal/mtk_thermal.c is already working around this by casting
>> to (u32 *).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
>
> Seems Guenter submitted the same thing a week ago, with no response:

This patch has been already sent to Greg few days back with my sign off 
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2233276

>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9148325/
>
> I'll selfishly suggest that mine is better, since it also corrects the
> comments :)
>
I agree, If Greg has not picked that up yet, then its easy to apply 
this, else we need another patch to fix the comment. :-).


--srini
> Brian
>
>> ---
>>   drivers/nvmem/core.c           | 4 ++--
>>   include/linux/nvmem-consumer.h | 2 +-
>>   2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
>> index 965911d9b36a..398ea7f54826 100644
>> --- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
>> @@ -981,8 +981,8 @@ static int __nvmem_cell_read(struct nvmem_device *nvmem,
>>    * @cell: nvmem cell to be read.
>>    * @len: pointer to length of cell which will be populated on successful read.
>>    *
>> - * Return: ERR_PTR() on error or a valid pointer to a char * buffer on success.
>> - * The buffer should be freed by the consumer with a kfree().
>> + * Return: ERR_PTR() on error or a valid pointer to a buffer on success. The
>> + * buffer should be freed by the consumer with a kfree().
>>    */
>>   void *nvmem_cell_read(struct nvmem_cell *cell, size_t *len)
>>   {
>> diff --git a/include/linux/nvmem-consumer.h b/include/linux/nvmem-consumer.h
>> index 9bb77d3ed6e0..c2256d746543 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/nvmem-consumer.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/nvmem-consumer.h
>> @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ static inline void nvmem_cell_put(struct nvmem_cell *cell)
>>   {
>>   }
>>
>> -static inline char *nvmem_cell_read(struct nvmem_cell *cell, size_t *len)
>> +static inline void *nvmem_cell_read(struct nvmem_cell *cell, size_t *len)
>>   {
>>   	return ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS);
>>   }
>> --
>> 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020
>>