> Don't overwrite the error code. For example, the lower layers can > return -EAGAIN and that's more useful than just returning -EIO every > time. Ahh.. Thanks a lot for explaining this. > Your fix works, but it's not very clean. Just add a "*id = ret;" > line before the "return 0;" and that's it. (It doesn't make sense > to pass a pointer to "id" and not use it). Dan, yes, I agree with you. This fix is much much better than what I had in my mind. > Yikes - I wonder why my various compilers don't throw that up. I guess, in "iio-blue.git" tree, the 'id = 0' suppresses this warning. Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@xxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2563.c b/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2563.c index f25243b..55012ff 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2563.c +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2563.c @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static int tsl2563_read_id(struct tsl2563_chip *chip, u8 *id) ret = i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(client, TSL2563_CMD | TSL2563_REG_ID); if (ret < 0) return ret; - + *id = ret; return 0; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
