On 9/3/20 6:47 AM, Lars Povlsen wrote:
> If the temperature is read before the internal calibration is
> completed, the driver returns -EIO. Instead it should return -EAGAIN
> to encourage repeating the operation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lars Povlsen <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c b/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c
> index 1a2b1026b026..98be48e3a22a 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/sparx5-temp.c
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static int s5_read(struct device *dev, enum 
> hwmon_sensor_types type,
>       case hwmon_temp_input:
>               stat = readl_relaxed(hwmon->base + TEMP_STAT);
>               if (!(stat & TEMP_STAT_VALID))
> -                     return -EIO;
> +                     return -EAGAIN;

The problem is that this may result in a hard loop and effectively hang the 
system,
or at least the calling process. It may be better to return -ENODATA in this 
situation.

Guenter

>               value = stat & TEMP_STAT_TEMP;
>               /*
>                * From register documentation:
> --
> 2.27.0
> 

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