Re: [PATCH v2] treewide, serdev: change receive_buf() return type to size_t
From: Ilpo Järvinen
Date: Wed Jan 24 2024 - 06:38:45 EST
On Mon, 22 Jan 2024, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> From: Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> receive_buf() is called from ttyport_receive_buf() that expects values
> ">= 0" from serdev_controller_receive_buf(), change its return type from
> ssize_t to size_t.
>
> The need for this clean-up was noticed while fixing a warning, see
> commit 94d053942544 ("Bluetooth: btnxpuart: fix recv_buf() return value").
> Changing the callback prototype to return an unsigned seems the best way
> to document the API and ensure that is properly used.
>
> GNSS drivers implementation of serdev receive_buf() callback return
> directly the return value of gnss_insert_raw(). gnss_insert_raw()
> returns a signed int, however this is not an issue since the value
> returned is always positive, because of the kfifo_in() implementation.
> gnss_insert_raw() could be changed to return also an unsigned, however
> this is not implemented here as request by the GNSS maintainer Johan
> Hovold.
>
> Suggested-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/087be419-ec6b-47ad-851a-5e1e3ea5cfcc@xxxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> #for-iio
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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