Re: [PATCH 29/54] pinctrl: ssbi-gpio: Be sure to clamp return value

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On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 4:59 AM, Bjorn Andersson <bjorn@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue 22 Dec 06:31 PST 2015, Linus Walleij wrote:
>
>> As we want gpio_chip .get() calls to be able to return negative
>> error codes and propagate to drivers, we need to go over all
>> drivers and make sure their return values are clamped to [0,1].
>> We do this by using the ret = !!(val) design pattern.
>>
>> Also, this code was double-inverting a bool. That makes no
>> sense whatsoever, so I removed the double-invert.
>>
>> Cc: Björn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

>> -                     ret = !!state;
>> +                     ret = state;
>>       }
>>
>> -     return ret;
>> +     return !!ret;
>
> But these you should keep as is; before your change ret is either
> negative errno or !!state, after your change errno is merged with the
> "high case".
>
> So either just drop this patch, or add the !! to the output_value and my
> Reviewed-by if you want consistency.
>
> This is actually the code path that started the discussion :)

Grrr my bad, I will make a separate patch fixing up this as I
have already merged this and other stuff on top.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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