In i2c/dev-interface.rst it said
> All these transactions return -1 on failure
But actually the i2c_smbus_xxx functions return negative error numbers
on failure, instead of -1.
Fix the document and remove the following sentence.
Signed-off-by: Lei YU <mine260309@xxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/i2c/dev-interface.rst | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/dev-interface.rst b/Documentation/i2c/dev-interface.rst
index 69c23a3..f2f2b28 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/dev-interface.rst
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/dev-interface.rst
@@ -163,11 +163,10 @@ for details) through the following functions::
__s32 i2c_smbus_write_block_data(int file, __u8 command, __u8 length,
__u8 *values);
-All these transactions return -1 on failure; you can read errno to see
-what happened. The 'write' transactions return 0 on success; the
-'read' transactions return the read value, except for read_block, which
-returns the number of values read. The block buffers need not be longer
-than 32 bytes.
+All these transactions return a negative error number on failure.
+The 'write' transactions return 0 on success; the 'read' transactions
+return the read value, except for read_block, which returns the number
+of values read. The block buffers need not be longer than 32 bytes.
The above functions are made available by linking against the libi2c library,
which is provided by the i2c-tools project. See:
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2.7.4
