On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I based my answer on the comment at the top of the function: 2845 * This executes an SMBus protocol operation, and returns a negative 2846 * errno code else zero on success. > >> 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
