Re: [PATCH 1/2] MFD: MAX77693: add MAX77693 MFD driver

From: Donggeun Kim
Date: Mon Dec 12 2011 - 05:03:11 EST


On 2011ë 12ì 12ì 18:48, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:02:40PM +0900, Donggeun Kim wrote:
>> On 2011ë 12ì 09ì 18:58, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 06:15:39PM +0900, Donggeun Kim wrote:
>
>>>> + if (max77693_read_reg(i2c, MAX77693_PMIC_REG_PMIC_ID2, &reg_data) < 0) {
>
>>> I'd suggest also verifying that the ID register has the expected value.
>>> If there's a chip reision register logging it can be helpful.
>
>> The all expected values for the register are not specified at datasheet.
>> The perpose of the read function is simply checking the existence of the
>> device so that the following operations are stopped for error case.
>
> With a name like "ID" it's clearly chip idenfication - you should at
> least be displaying the value if it might change as it's likely to be
> useful for diagnostics.
>
It would be changed to display the value from the register in normal case.

Thanks.
-Donggeun
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