Re: [PATCH] drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: actually check return valueof lp5521_read

[Bryan Wu]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This detects device failures properly. Fixes compiler warning:
> drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c:741: warning: 'buf' may be used uninitialized in this function
>
> Signed-off-by: Reinhard Tartler <siretart@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> This problem was found by tools developed by the VAMOS project:
> http://www4.cs.fau.de/Research/VAMOS/
>
> diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c b/drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c
> index 410a723..943c69d 100644
> --- a/drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c
> +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c
> @@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ static int __devinit lp5521_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
>         * LP5521_REG_ENABLE register will not have any effect - strange!
>         */
>        ret = lp5521_read(client, LP5521_REG_R_CURRENT, &buf);
> -       if (buf != LP5521_REG_R_CURR_DEFAULT) {
> +       if (ret == -EIO || buf != LP5521_REG_R_CURR_DEFAULT) {

Looks fine to me.
Acked-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

And applied to fixes-for-3.5 branch of linux-leds.git

-Bryan
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