Re: [PATCH 05/10] iio: imu: adis: check ret val for non-zero vs less-than-zero

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Sun Nov 03 2019 - 05:31:25 EST


On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 11:35:00 +0200
Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The ADIS library functions return zero on success, and negative values for
> error. Positive values aren't returned, but we only care about the success
> value (which is zero).
>
> This change is mostly needed so that the compiler won't make any inferences
> about some about values being potentially un-initialized. This only
> triggers after making some functions inline, because the compiler can
> better follow return paths.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx>
Applied.

thanks,

Jonathan

> ---
> drivers/iio/imu/adis.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/imu/adis.c b/drivers/iio/imu/adis.c
> index 1631c255deab..dc2f9e061d98 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/imu/adis.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/imu/adis.c
> @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ int adis_check_status(struct adis *adis)
> int i;
>
> ret = adis_read_reg_16(adis, adis->data->diag_stat_reg, &status);
> - if (ret < 0)
> + if (ret)
> return ret;
>
> status &= adis->data->status_error_mask;