Re: [PATCH 5/8] iio: accel: kx022a: Switch to sparse friendly iio_device_claim/release_direct()

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On 18/02/2025 17:42, David Lechner wrote:
On 2/18/25 1:39 AM, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
On 17/02/2025 16:01, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>

These new functions allow sparse to find failures to release
direct mode reducing chances of bugs over the claim_direct_mode()
functions that are deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@xxxxxxxxx>
---
   drivers/iio/accel/kionix-kx022a.c | 14 ++++++--------
   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/accel/kionix-kx022a.c b/drivers/iio/accel/kionix-kx022a.c
index 727e007c5fc1..07dcf5f0599f 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/accel/kionix-kx022a.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/accel/kionix-kx022a.c
@@ -577,13 +577,12 @@ static int kx022a_write_raw(struct iio_dev *idev,
        * issues if users trust the watermark to be reached within known
        * time-limit).
        */
-    ret = iio_device_claim_direct_mode(idev);
-    if (ret)
-        return ret;
+    if (!iio_device_claim_direct(idev))
+        return -EBUSY;

Not really in the scope of this review - but in my opinion the logic of this check is terribly counter intuitive. I mean,

+    if (iio_device_claim_direct(idev))
+        return -EBUSY;

I'm curious how you read this then. I read this as:

"If claiming direct mode succeeded, then return an error!"

I am used to seeing a pattern where function returning zero indicates a success. I have no statistics but I believe this is true for a vast majority of functions in the kernel. I believe this was the case with the old 'iio_device_claim_direct_mode(idev)' too.

I am not saying this is 'absolutely' bad. I can only tell that _I_ really had to go and look up the implementation of the iio_device_claim_direct() in order to review this change to ensure the return value check was not inverted.

Yours,
	-- Matti





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