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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regmap: silence GCC warning
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:20:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <59004.1349475644@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:23:36 +0200." <1349249016.1414.55.camel@x61.thuisdomein>

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On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:23:36 +0200, Paul Bolle said:

> By the way, GCC doesn't warn if I add an early check whether 'val_count'
> is non-zero:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
> index c241ae2..d41527b 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
> @@ -1171,6 +1171,8 @@ int regmap_raw_read(struct regmap *map, unsigned int reg, void *val,
>         unsigned int v;
>         int ret, i;
>
> +       if (!val_count)
> +               return -EINVAL;

> That is another way to silence GCC here.

That's probably a preferable approach - that way, if a bogus val_count gets
passed in, the caller will be informed of the fact.  Which is a lot better than
just papering over the warning.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-05 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-30 10:15 [PATCH] regmap: silence GCC warning Paul Bolle
2012-10-01 10:03 ` Mark Brown
2012-10-01 10:16   ` Paul Bolle
2012-10-01 10:19     ` Mark Brown
2012-10-01 10:32       ` Paul Bolle
2012-10-01 11:39         ` Mark Brown
2012-10-01 19:08           ` Paul Bolle
2012-10-01 19:11             ` Mark Brown
2012-10-03  0:11   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-10-03  7:23     ` Paul Bolle
2012-10-03 11:06       ` Mark Brown
2012-10-05 22:20       ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2012-10-06  8:53         ` Mark Brown
2012-10-06  9:57           ` Paul Bolle
2012-10-08  1:14             ` Mark Brown
2012-10-08 20:06               ` [PATCH v2] " Paul Bolle
2012-10-12  6:26                 ` Mark Brown

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