Re: [RFC] [PATCH] misc : ROHM BH1780GLI Ambient light sensor Driver

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On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 06:10:00PM +0530, Hemanth V wrote:
> >On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 05:05:50PM +0530, Hemanth V wrote:
> >>+ mutex_lock(&ddata->lock);
> >>+
> >>+ error = bh1780_write(ddata, BH1780_REG_CONTROL, val, "CONTROL");
> >>+ if (error < 0) {
> >>+ mutex_unlock(&ddata->lock);
> >>+ return error;
> >>+ }
> >>+
> >>+ msleep(BH1780_PON_DELAY);
> >
> >Hmm, what do you wait for here?
> 
> Settling time delay required before lux read out

I thought so, but in fact you're just delaying the next two lines by
that:

> >>+ ddata->power_state = val;
> >>+ mutex_unlock(&ddata->lock);

... which doesn't make sense to me.

I can believe there is need to wait for the value to settle, but I think
it's the wrong place where you're doing it currently.

> >>+static int __devinit bh1780_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
> >>+ const struct i2c_device_id *id)
> >>+{
> >>+ int ret;
> >>+ struct bh1780_data *ddata = NULL;
> >
> >The initialization isn't needed.
> 
> This is basically added for the first goto error, to prevent
> any garbage values

Sorry, you're right. Ignore this comment :)

Thanks,
Daniel

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