Re: drivers/regulator/core.c: Fixes mapping insideregulator_mode_to_status() and makes it returning -EINVAL oninvalid input.

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Jan 09 2012 - 15:07:40 EST


On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:20:50PM +0000, dd diasemi wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Mark Brown

> >>       default:
> >> -             return 0;
> >> +             return -EINVAL;

> > This behaviour is deliberate.

> For this moment, the only usage is in one file in
> wm831x_aldo_get_status() and wm831x_gp_ldo_get_status():
> ret = wm831x_aldo_get_mode(rdev);
> if (ret < 0)
> return ret;
> else
> return regulator_mode_to_status(ret);

> The usage mistreats the signed value 'ret' as wm831x_aldo_get_mode()
> always returns 0 on communication error. It effects in response as if
> the regulator was off.

> If that behaviour is deliberate, I would suggest to make it explicit:
> default:
> - return 0;
> + return REGULATOR_STATUS_OFF;

That's not the deliberate behaviour, the deliberate behaviour is to
return no mode if we didn't find one.
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