Re: [PATCH 2/2] fbdev: ssd1307fb: check return value while setting offset

From: Prabhakar Lad
Date: Tue Jan 13 2015 - 08:46:48 EST


On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:53:01AM +0000, Prabhakar Lad wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On 08/01/15 10:17, Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
>> >> this patch checks the return value of write command while
>> >> setting the display offset.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >> ---
>> >> drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c | 2 +-
>> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
>> >> index 70e3ce8..a7ecaa6 100644
>> >> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
>> >> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
>> >> @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ static int ssd1307fb_ssd1306_init(struct ssd1307fb_par *par)
>> >>
>> >> /* set display offset value */
>> >> ret = ssd1307fb_write_cmd(par->client, SSD1307FB_SET_DISPLAY_OFFSET);
>> >> - ret = ssd1307fb_write_cmd(par->client, 0x20);
>> >> + ret = ret & ssd1307fb_write_cmd(par->client, 0x20);
>> >> if (ret < 0)
>> >> return ret;
>> >
>> > Hrm, what's that supposed to do? If both calls to ssd1307fb_write_cmd()
>> > return an error, they are anded, resulting in a garbage error code...
>> >
>> Agreed I have just aligned this to rest of the code in this function.
>>
>> Maxime if you are OK I'll post a patch returning error then and there ?
>
> I'm not sure what the question is, but Tomi is right, having two
> returns seems the right thing to do.
>
OK I'll post a new patch having two separate returns.

Thanks,
--Prabhakar Lad
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