linux-kernel - [PATCH] regulator: wm831x_reg_read() failure unnoticed in wm831x_aldo_get

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Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:07:31 +0100
From:	Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
To:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...mlogic.co.uk>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] regulator: wm831x_reg_read() failure unnoticed in wm831x_aldo_get_mode()

ret should be signed to notice a failure in wm831x_reg_read().

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
---
Found using coccinelle: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/

diff --git a/drivers/regulator/wm831x-ldo.c b/drivers/regulator/wm831x-ldo.c
index 902db56..61e02ac 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/wm831x-ldo.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/wm831x-ldo.c
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ static unsigned int wm831x_aldo_get_mode(struct regulator_dev *rdev)
 	struct wm831x_ldo *ldo = rdev_get_drvdata(rdev);
 	struct wm831x *wm831x = ldo->wm831x;
 	int on_reg = ldo->base + WM831X_LDO_ON_CONTROL;
-	unsigned int ret;
+	int ret;
 
 	ret = wm831x_reg_read(wm831x, on_reg);
 	if (ret < 0)
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