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authorDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>2010-08-10 07:37:33 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-08-31 11:40:35 -0700
commit213fd2270450f7b5f98803e58bc25063c249e032 (patch)
treef74f3f4548db896173ddd25ccb80abe4c1c0adf9 /drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer
parentd1ae4da731a6e049a675097ebfd9a02b9b50530e (diff)
downloadlinux-213fd2270450f7b5f98803e58bc25063c249e032.tar.bz2
Staging: iio: signedness bug
i2c_smbus_read_byte_data() returns an s32 type. We need to change "rate" to signed for the error handling to work. Also I changed it to propogate the error code instead of just returning -EINVAL. Other error codes could be -EAGAIN for example. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843.c b/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843.c
index ea5f749c5fe7..2b1828017076 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843.c
@@ -389,11 +389,11 @@ static ssize_t show_sampling_frequency(struct device *dev,
struct iio_dev *indio_dev = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
struct i2c_client *client = to_i2c_client(indio_dev->dev.parent);
struct iio_dev_attr *this_attr = to_iio_dev_attr(attr);
- u32 rate;
+ s32 rate;
rate = i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(client, this_attr->address);
if (rate < 0)
- return -EINVAL;
+ return rate;
rate = (rate & RATE_BITMASK) >> RATE_OFFSET;
return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", regval_to_samp_freq[rate]);
}