Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 5 May 2026 07:57:55 +0300 | | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 06/17] iio: magnetometer: ak8975: modernize polling loops with iopoll() macros |
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On Mon, May 04, 2026 at 04:06:06PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On Mon, 04 May 2026 11:48:18 +0200 > Joshua Crofts via B4 Relay <devnull+joshua.crofts1.gmail.com@kernel.org> wrote:
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> One question inline on whether it is a good idea to be paranoid about > gpiod_get_value() potentially returning < 0 to indicate an error. > Right now that is treated as success.
> > + ret = readx_poll_timeout(gpiod_get_value, data->eoc_gpiod, val, val != 0, > > + AK8975_CONVERSION_DONE_POLL_TIME * USEC_PER_MSEC, > > + AK8975_MAX_CONVERSION_TIMEOUT * USEC_PER_MSEC); > > + if (ret) > > + return ret; > > Should we check val as well? It might be negative if gpiod_get_value() > returned an error.. Obviously the original code didn't so this would be an > improvement rather than maintaining what that was doing.
I agree that this would be a good addition, but since it's a behavioural change I think the separate patch should be made (perhaps after readx_*() conversion as it makes it easier to do).
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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