Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] docs: hwmon: (ltc2945): change type of val to ULL in ltc2945_val_to_reg()

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Wed Nov 11 2020 - 10:44:08 EST


On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 05:28:51PM +0200, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 4:54 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 11/11/20 1:12 AM, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
> > > In order to account for any potential overflows that could occur.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Thinking about it, this can only really happen if the user provides
> > excessive values for limit attributes. Those are currently clamped
> > later, after the conversion. I think it would be better to modify
> > the code to apply a clamp _before_ the conversion as well instead
> > of trying to solve the overflow problem with unsigned long long.
> >
> > Either case, can you send me a register dump for this chip ?
>
> I asked Mark to help out on this.
> Right now I don't have a board around my home-office.
> I"m just pulling patches from our own tree to send upstream.
> Is there a specific command you have in mind for this i2cdump?
>
> Is the output of something like this fine:
> # i2cdump -r 0x00-0x31 1 0x6f
> ?

Yes, that should do, assuming the chip is on bus #1, address 0x6f.

Thanks,
Guenter