Re: [PATCH] regulator: Fix bug in regulator_mode_to_status() core function.

[Krystian Garbaciak]

> > > This is deliberate.  It's not reporting an error, it's reporting an
> > > indeterminate status which is a different thing.
> 
> > Ok, then I would propose to use REGULATOR_STATUS_OFF instead of 0, to present
> > your deliberate decision here.
> 
> I don't think you're fully understanding "indeterminate" there...  the
> whole point is that we can't adequately represent the state, making
> something up isn't helping things.

Would it make more sense to have some special enum value for that case, let say
there would be REGULATOR_STATUS_UNDEFINED?

Returning 0 is interpreted as REGULATOR_STATUS_OFF outside the function.
But it may change, if ever the enumeration changes.

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