Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754436AbZLBOBK (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 09:01:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754248AbZLBOBJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 09:01:09 -0500 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.122.230]:43033 "EHLO mgw-mx03.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753663AbZLBOBI (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 09:01:08 -0500 From: Amit Kucheria To: List Linux Kernel Cc: Samuel Ortiz , List Linux Omap Subject: [PATCHv2] mfd: twl4030: clarify the return value for read and write Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:00:50 +0200 Message-Id: <1259762450-7385-1-git-send-email-amit.kucheria@verdurent.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.3.3 In-Reply-To: <1259760678-18707-1-git-send-email-amit.kucheria@verdurent.com> References: <1259760678-18707-1-git-send-email-amit.kucheria@verdurent.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Dec 2009 14:00:53.0327 (UTC) FILETIME=[DC903DF0:01CA7357] X-Nokia-AV: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1981 Lines: 63 Infact, we can just return -1 so that caller knows for sure that all messages were not tranferred. Please consider fixed patch instead. We should be checking if all the messages were tranferred or not. And return -1 for failure. Currently we return success (0) even if none of messages were transferred successfully. Signed-off-by: Amit Kucheria --- drivers/mfd/twl4030-core.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++-------- 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mfd/twl4030-core.c b/drivers/mfd/twl4030-core.c index 56f1de5..8f9ba79 100644 --- a/drivers/mfd/twl4030-core.c +++ b/drivers/mfd/twl4030-core.c @@ -292,10 +292,14 @@ int twl4030_i2c_write(u8 mod_no, u8 *value, u8 reg, unsigned num_bytes) ret = i2c_transfer(twl->client->adapter, twl->xfer_msg, 1); mutex_unlock(&twl->xfer_lock); - /* i2cTransfer returns num messages.translate it pls.. */ - if (ret >= 0) - ret = 0; - return ret; + /* i2c_transfer returns number of messages transferred */ + if (ret != 1) { + pr_err("%s: i2c_write failed to transfer all messages\n", + DRIVER_NAME); + return -1; + } else { + return 0; + } } EXPORT_SYMBOL(twl4030_i2c_write); @@ -344,10 +348,15 @@ int twl4030_i2c_read(u8 mod_no, u8 *value, u8 reg, unsigned num_bytes) ret = i2c_transfer(twl->client->adapter, twl->xfer_msg, 2); mutex_unlock(&twl->xfer_lock); - /* i2cTransfer returns num messages.translate it pls.. */ - if (ret >= 0) - ret = 0; - return ret; + /* i2c_transfer returns number of messages transferred */ + if (ret != 2) { + pr_err("%s: i2c_read failed to transfer all messages\n", + DRIVER_NAME); + return -1; + } + else { + return 0; + } } EXPORT_SYMBOL(twl4030_i2c_read); -- 1.6.3.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/