Re: [PATCH v5 1/7] pwm: pca9685: Switch to atomic API

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 12:10:10PM -0500, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 11:48 AM Clemens Gruber
> <clemens.gruber@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I can initialize the values to 0 of course and check the file for other
> > places with missing initializations.
> >
> > Or would it be better to check the return codes of regmap_read/write in
> > such cases? I'm not sure.
> 
> I think that checking the regmap_read/write return values is overkill
> in this driver. These functions can't realistically fail, except if the i2c
> bus is bad, i.e. h/w failure or intermittency. And that's an externality
> which I believe we can ignore.
> 
> Maybe Thierry or Uwe have further insights here.

I'm a fan of full checking, but I'm not sure what's Thierry's position
on that.

My reasoning is: If the bus is bad and a request to modify the PWM fails
because of that, the PWM consumer probably wants to know.

Best regards
Uwe

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