Title: [9315] trunk/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843.c: merge from upstream: Staging: iio: signedness bug
Revision
9315
Author
vapier
Date
2010-10-24 16:36:24 -0400 (Sun, 24 Oct 2010)

Log Message

merge from upstream: Staging: iio: signedness bug

From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

i2c_smbus_read_byte_data() returns an s32 type.  We need to change
"rate" to signed for the error handling to work.

Also I changed it to propogate the error code instead of just returning
-EINVAL.  Other error codes could be -EAGAIN for example.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

Modified Paths

Diff

Modified: trunk/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843.c (9314 => 9315)


--- trunk/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843.c	2010-10-24 20:23:49 UTC (rev 9314)
+++ trunk/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843.c	2010-10-24 20:36:24 UTC (rev 9315)
@@ -389,11 +389,11 @@
 	struct iio_dev *indio_dev = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
 	struct i2c_client *client = to_i2c_client(indio_dev->dev.parent);
 	struct iio_dev_attr *this_attr = to_iio_dev_attr(attr);
-	u32 rate;
+	s32 rate;
 
 	rate = i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(client,  this_attr->address);
 	if (rate < 0)
-		return -EINVAL;
+		return rate;
 	rate = (rate & RATE_BITMASK) >> RATE_OFFSET;
 	return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", regval_to_samp_freq[rate]);
 }
_______________________________________________
Linux-kernel-commits mailing list
[email protected]
https://blackfin.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-kernel-commits

Reply via email to