On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 16:20 +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 12:51 +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 2:10 AM, Kevin Tsai <ktsai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > CM3232 is an advanced ambient light sensor with I2C protocol interface. > >> > The I2C slave address is internally hardwired as 0x10 (7-bit). Writing > >> > to configure register is byte mode, but reading ALS register requests to > >> > use word mode for 16-bit resolution. [] > >> You could directly return i2c_smbus_write_byte_data(..). > > > > Sometimes it's better to return a specific value > > for the error instead of depending on correctness > > of all the indirect functions in the call chain. > > > > In this case, all the smbus_xfer functions must > > return 0 on success. Do they? > > Yes. > > http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c#L2845 This doesn't show that adapter->algo->smbus_xfer() returns 0, you have to look at the code for that indirectly called function. > Also, I guess kbuild test robot will complain about it, like here: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141963536230419&w=2 Is the kbuild test robot now submitting patches for all possible coccinelle simplifications? I don't think so. -- 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
