Re: [PATCH] i2c: mux: mlxcpld: fix i2c mux selection caching

From: Peter Rosin
Date: Sat Dec 17 2016 - 15:35:06 EST


On 2016-12-17 21:29, Peter Rosin wrote:
> smbus functions return -ve on error, 0 on success. However,
> __i2c_transfer() have a different return signature - -ve on error, or
> number of buffers transferred (which may be zero or greater.)
>
> The upshot of this is that the sense of the text is reversed when using

s/text/test/

> the mux on a bus supporting the master_xfer method: we cache the value
> and never retry if we fail to transfer any buffers, but if we succeed,
> we clear the cached value

missing terminating period

>
> Fix this by making mlxcpld_mux_reg_write() return a -ve error code for
> all failure cases, just as was done in commit 7f638c1cb0a1 ("i2c: mux:
> pca954x: fix i2c mux selection caching")
>
> This also aligns the implementations of these two muxes in this area.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Sorry for the poor proof-reading skills.

Cheers,
peda