Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] mtd: spi-nor: change return value of read/write

[Marek Vasut]

On Monday, August 03, 2015 at 08:39:01 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Change the return value of spi-nor device read and write methods to
> allow returning amount of data transferred and errors as
> read(2)/write(2) does.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/mtd/spi-nor.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/spi-nor.h b/include/linux/mtd/spi-nor.h
> index e540952..7d782cb 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mtd/spi-nor.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mtd/spi-nor.h
> @@ -185,9 +185,9 @@ struct spi_nor {
>  	int (*write_reg)(struct spi_nor *nor, u8 opcode, u8 *buf, int len,
>  			int write_enable);
> 
> -	int (*read)(struct spi_nor *nor, loff_t from,
> +	ssize_t (*read)(struct spi_nor *nor, loff_t from,
>  			size_t len, size_t *retlen, u_char *read_buf);
> -	void (*write)(struct spi_nor *nor, loff_t to,
> +	ssize_t (*write)(struct spi_nor *nor, loff_t to,
>  			size_t len, size_t *retlen, const u_char *write_buf);
>  	int (*erase)(struct spi_nor *nor, loff_t offs);

You realize that if someone does bisect and has only this patch applied,
the compiler will complain loudly about mismatching data types, right ? :)

Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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