On 02/25/2014 02:32 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 02/24/2014 10:21 PM, Wei Ni wrote:
>> Split set&show temp codes as common functions, so we can use it
>> directly when implement linux thermal framework.
>> And handle error return value for the lm90_select_remote_channel
>> and write_tempx, then set_temp8 and set_temp11 could return it
>> to user-space.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Ni <wni@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/hwmon/lm90.c | 170 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>> 1 file changed, 115 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/lm90.c b/drivers/hwmon/lm90.c
>> index c9ff08d..fb9e224 100644
>> --- a/drivers/hwmon/lm90.c
>> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/lm90.c
>> @@ -473,20 +473,29 @@ static int lm90_read16(struct i2c_client *client, u8 regh, u8 regl, u16 *value)
>> * various registers have different meanings as a result of selecting a
>> * non-default remote channel.
>> */
>> -static inline void lm90_select_remote_channel(struct i2c_client *client,
>> - struct lm90_data *data,
>> - int channel)
>> +static inline int lm90_select_remote_channel(struct i2c_client *client,
>> + struct lm90_data *data,
>> + int channel)
>> {
>> u8 config;
>> + int err;
>>
>> if (data->kind == max6696) {
>> lm90_read_reg(client, LM90_REG_R_CONFIG1, &config);
>> config &= ~0x08;
>> if (channel)
>> config |= 0x08;
>> - i2c_smbus_write_byte_data(client, LM90_REG_W_CONFIG1,
>> - config);
>> + err = i2c_smbus_write_byte_data(client, LM90_REG_W_CONFIG1,
>> + config);
>> + if (err < 0) {
>> + dev_err(&client->dev,
>> + "Failed to select remote channel %d, err %d\n",
>> + channel, err);
>> + return err;
>
> Not my call to make, but I really dislike all that new noisiness.
> Sure, it is ok to pass the error back, but in my opinion that is
> good enough. If every driver in the kernel would be that noisy,
> the log would be all but useless.
This was discussed in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/227
Jean wish to catch and return write errors,then the set_temp8() could
return error to user-space.
Thanks.
Wei.
>
> Guenter
>
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