nvmem_cell_read() API fills in the argument 'len' with the number of bytes read from the cell. Many users don't care about this length value. So allow users to pass a NULL pointer to this len field. Signed-off-by: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Based on torvalds's master branch. - Tested against 'next-20161219' tag on db410c (apq8016) target for thermal sensors. drivers/nvmem/core.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c index 965911d..4c38842 100644 --- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c +++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c @@ -970,7 +970,8 @@ static int __nvmem_cell_read(struct nvmem_device *nvmem, if (cell->bit_offset || cell->nbits) nvmem_shift_read_buffer_in_place(cell, buf); - *len = cell->bytes; + if (len) + *len = cell->bytes; return 0; } @@ -979,7 +980,8 @@ static int __nvmem_cell_read(struct nvmem_device *nvmem, * nvmem_cell_read() - Read a given nvmem cell * * @cell: nvmem cell to be read. - * @len: pointer to length of cell which will be populated on successful read. + * @len: pointer to length of cell which will be populated on successful read; + * can be NULL. * * 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(). -- The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
