Re: [PATCH] staging: iio: light: Fix compiler warning in tsl2563.c

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Fri Sep 02 2011 - 05:03:19 EST




On 09/01/11 22:55, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 12:24:13AM +0300, Maxin B. John wrote:
>> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2563.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2563.c
>> @@ -225,9 +225,9 @@ static int tsl2563_read_id(struct tsl2563_chip *chip, u8 *id)
>>
>> ret = i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(client, TSL2563_CMD | TSL2563_REG_ID);
>> if (ret < 0)
>> - return ret;
>> + return -EIO;
>
> Don't overwrite the error code. For example, the lower layers can
> return -EAGAIN and that's more useful than just returning -EIO every
> time.
>
> Your fix works, but it's not very clean. Just add a "*id = ret;"
> line before the "return 0;" and that's it. (It doesn't make sense
> to pass a pointer to "id" and not use it).
>
> (In other words, don't make any changes to the tsl2563_probe()
> function)
>
>>
>> - return 0;
>> + return ret;
>> }
>>
Yikes - I wonder why my various compilers don't throw that up.
Ah well Dan's fix is indeed the right one and what was intended.

Thanks,

Jonathan

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