Hi Wolfram, On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:52 AM Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > +{ > > > + int ret; > > > + > > > + ret = device_property_read_u32(dev, prop_name, cur_val_p); > > > + if (ret && use_def) > > > + *cur_val_p = def_val; > > > > Alternatively, you could just preinitialize the value with the default value > > before calling this function, and ignoring ret. > > That would remove the need for both the def_val and use_def parameters. > > I can't do that because if !use_def and ret, then the value must not be > changed. Of course the preinitialization must still be done conditionally: if (use_defaults) t->foo = DEFAULT_FOO; i2c_parse_timing(dev, "foo-name", &t->foo); Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds