On 12/06/16 07:55, Matt Ranostay wrote:
> 
> Also important to note these warnings are environment related (e.g. room with 
> lot of EMI noise) and unlikely a chip misconfiguration. Unless the tuning 
> capacitor setting is wrong of course
Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git. Initially pushed out as testing
for the autobuilders to play with it.

Thanks,

Jonathan
> 
>> On Jun 11, 2016, at 09:32, Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 31/05/16 15:53, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>>>> On 05/30/2016 09:52 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>> gcc warns about a potentially uninitialized variable use
>>>> in as3935_event_work:
>>>>
>>>> drivers/iio/proximity/as3935.c: In function ‘as3935_event_work’:
>>>> drivers/iio/proximity/as3935.c:231:6: error: ‘val’ may be used 
>>>> uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>>>>
>>>> This case specifically happens when spi_w8r8() fails with a
>>>> negative return code. We check all other users of this function
>>>> except this one.
>>>>
>>>> As the error is rather unlikely to happen after the device
>>>> has already been initialized, this just adds a dev_warn().
>>>> Another warning already existst in the same function, but is
>>>
>>>                            ^^ typo
>>>
>>>> missing a trailing '\n' character, so I'm fixing that too.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/iio/proximity/as3935.c | 10 ++++++++--
>>>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/proximity/as3935.c 
>>>> b/drivers/iio/proximity/as3935.c
>>>> index f4d29d5dbd5f..b49e3ab5730a 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/iio/proximity/as3935.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/iio/proximity/as3935.c
>>>> @@ -224,10 +224,16 @@ static void as3935_event_work(struct work_struct 
>>>> *work)
>>>> {
>>>>    struct as3935_state *st;
>>>>    int val;
>>>> +    int ret;
>>>>
>>>>    st = container_of(work, struct as3935_state, work.work);
>>>>
>>>> -    as3935_read(st, AS3935_INT, &val);
>>>> +    ret = as3935_read(st, AS3935_INT, &val);
>>>> +    if (ret) {
>>>> +        dev_warn(&st->spi->dev, "read error\n");
>>>
>>> Maybe I'm misunderstanding the commit message, why does this error not
>>> use dev_err()? A read error here would be rather serious, it might even
>>> be worth it to return a code and fail through the caller too.
>> They are unusual and typically result in momentary corruption.  Hmm.
>> As this is in a work function, there is no easy way of actually
>> passing the error upstream..  dev_err is a little brutal so perhaps
>> this is the best option...
>>>
>>>> +        return;
>>>> +    }
>>>> +
>>>>    val &= AS3935_INT_MASK;
>>>>
>>>>    switch (val) {
>>>> @@ -235,7 +241,7 @@ static void as3935_event_work(struct work_struct *work)
>>>>        iio_trigger_poll(st->trig);
>>>>        break;
>>>>    case AS3935_NOISE_INT:
>>>> -        dev_warn(&st->spi->dev, "noise level is too high");
>>>> +        dev_warn(&st->spi->dev, "noise level is too high\n");
>>>>        break;
>>>>    }
>>>> }
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