Re: [PATCH 1/2] MFD: MAX77693: add MAX77693 MFD driver

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:02:40PM +0900, Donggeun Kim wrote:
> On 2011ë 12ì 09ì 18:58, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 06:15:39PM +0900, Donggeun Kim wrote:

> >> +	if (max77693_read_reg(i2c, MAX77693_PMIC_REG_PMIC_ID2, &reg_data) < 0) {

> > I'd suggest also verifying that the ID register has the expected value.
> > If there's a chip reision register logging it can be helpful.

> The all expected values for the register are not specified at datasheet.
> The perpose of the read function is simply checking the existence of the
> device so that the following operations are stopped for error case.

With a name like "ID" it's clearly chip idenfication - you should at
least be displaying the value if it might change as it's likely to be
useful for diagnostics.
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