Hi Eddie, On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 06:29:23PM +0800, Eddie Huang wrote: > > regmap_read() and regmap_write() can return errors. There is no > > checking for this. > > > > I encounter some trouble when I add code to check return value of > regmap_read and regmap_write. Every RTC register access through regmap, > and there are many register read/write in this driver. If I check every > return value, the driver will become ugly. I try to make this driver > clean using following macro. > > static int __rtc_read(struct mt6397_rtc *rtc, u32 offset, u32 *data) > { > u32 addr = rtc->addr_base + offset; > > if (offset < rtc->addr_range) > return regmap_read(rtc->regmap, addr, data); > > return -EINVAL; > } > > #define rtc_read(ret, rtc, offset, data) \ > ({ \ > ret = __rtc_read(rtc, offset, data); \ > if (ret < 0) \ > goto rtc_exit; \ > }) \ Hiding a goto (or return) in a macro is a very bad idea. what you can do is ret |= regmap_read(rtc->regmap, RTC_TC_SEC, &tm->tm_sec); ret |= regmap_read(rtc->regmap, RTC_TC_MIN, &tm->tm_min); if (ret) return -EIO; (Don't return ret in this case though as it might contain different error codes orred together) Another possibilty at least for contiguous registers would be regmap_bulk_read(). Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html