Re: [PATCH RFC] regulator: core: fix handling negative voltages e.g. in EPD PMICs

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Feb 24 2020 - 07:31:27 EST


On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 01:22:21PM +0100, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> > Am 24.02.2020 um 13:05 schrieb Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> > This is what'd be needed, your approach here is a bit of a hack and
> > leaves some values unrepresentable if they overlap with errnos which
> > obviously has issues if someone has a need for those values.

> Negative ERRNOs have BIT(31) set.

This code is working with the numberic representation, not with the
bitwise representation - it's using -MAX_ERRNO.

> But then it seems to be a little inconsistent that the voltage
> parameters of regulator_set_voltage_unlocked() are signed integers
> and not unsigned.

> So shouldn't that be protected against attempting to set negative voltages?

Or just convert it to unsigned, I don't recall there being any
particular reason why it's signed.

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