Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] iio: accel: adxl345_core: Introduce set_mode and data_ready functions

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Mon May 01 2017 - 16:18:57 EST




On 1 May 2017 21:07:44 BST, Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 10:48 PM, Jonathan Cameron
><jic23@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 1 May 2017 20:42:08 BST, Andy Shevchenko
><andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 3:22 AM, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>wrote:
>>>> On 29/04/17 08:48, Eva Rachel Retuya wrote:
>>>
>>>>> +static int adxl345_set_mode(struct adxl345_data *data, u8 mode)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> + struct device *dev = regmap_get_device(data->regmap);
>>>>> + int ret;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + ret = regmap_write(data->regmap, ADXL345_REG_POWER_CTL,
>mode);
>>>>> + if (ret < 0) {
>>>>> + dev_err(dev, "Failed to set power mode, %d\n", ret);
>>>>> + return ret;
>>>> drop the return ret here and just return ret at the end of the
>>>function.
>>>> One of the static checkers will probably moan about this otherwise.
>>>
>>>But this will be not equivalent!
>> Why? Regmap_write returns 0 for success.
>
>If there is a qurantee that regmap_write() doesn't return any positive
>values, I'm okay with replacement.
Kernel doc says so.

>http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c#L1693
>>>
>>>>> + }
>>>>> +
>>>>> + return 0;
>>>>> +}

--
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.