Re: [PATCH] of: property: Fix documentation for out values

[Frank Rowand]

Hi Matti,

On 11/12/19 2:17 AM, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> Property fetching functions which return number of successfully fetched
> properties should not state that out-values are only modified if 0 is
> returned. Fix this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/of/property.c | 12 ++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/of/property.c b/drivers/of/property.c
> index d7fa75e31f22..4aae93cdc1ce 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/property.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/property.c
> @@ -164,7 +164,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_property_read_u64_index);
>   *
>   * @np:		device node from which the property value is to be read.
>   * @propname:	name of the property to be searched.
> - * @out_values:	pointer to return value, modified only if return value is 0.
> + * @out_values:	pointer to return value, modified only if return value is
> + *		greater than 0.
>   * @sz_min:	minimum number of array elements to read
>   * @sz_max:	maximum number of array elements to read, if zero there is no
>   *		upper limit on the number of elements in the dts entry but only
> @@ -212,7 +213,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_property_read_variable_u8_array);
>   *
>   * @np:		device node from which the property value is to be read.
>   * @propname:	name of the property to be searched.
> - * @out_values:	pointer to return value, modified only if return value is 0.
> + * @out_values:	pointer to return value, modified only if return value is
> + *		greater than 0.
>   * @sz_min:	minimum number of array elements to read
>   * @sz_max:	maximum number of array elements to read, if zero there is no
>   *		upper limit on the number of elements in the dts entry but only
> @@ -260,7 +262,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_property_read_variable_u16_array);
>   *
>   * @np:		device node from which the property value is to be read.
>   * @propname:	name of the property to be searched.
> - * @out_values:	pointer to return value, modified only if return value is 0.
> + * @out_values:	pointer to return value, modified only if return value is
> + *		greater than 0.
>   * @sz_min:	minimum number of array elements to read
>   * @sz_max:	maximum number of array elements to read, if zero there is no
>   *		upper limit on the number of elements in the dts entry but only
> @@ -334,7 +337,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_property_read_u64);
>   *
>   * @np:		device node from which the property value is to be read.
>   * @propname:	name of the property to be searched.
> - * @out_values:	pointer to return value, modified only if return value is 0.
> + * @out_values:	pointer to return value, modified only if return value is
> + *		greater than 0.
>   * @sz_min:	minimum number of array elements to read
>   * @sz_max:	maximum number of array elements to read, if zero there is no
>   *		upper limit on the number of elements in the dts entry but only
> 

Thanks for catching each of these cases of incorrect documentation.

Instead of correcting each of the descriptions, please just remove the incorrect
portion.  So for each case, remove ", modified only if return value is 0."

The reference to return value of 0 is a left over from another set of functions
which were modified to call the set of functions that you fix above.

Thanks,

Frank