linux-kernel - Re: [sparse stuff] bug in lp3944_led_set

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Date:	Wed, 5 Oct 2011 22:21:43 +0200
From:	Antonio Ospite <ospite@...denti.unina.it>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [sparse stuff] bug in lp3944_led_set_brightness()

On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:32:48 +0300
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:

> Hi Antonio,
> 
> I was going through some Sparse warnings and this one seems pretty
> valid.
> 
> drivers/leds/leds-lp3944.c +292 23:
> 	warning: mixing different enum types
> 
>    284  static void lp3944_led_set_brightness(struct led_classdev *led_cdev,
>    285                                        enum led_brightness brightness)
>    286  {
>    287          struct lp3944_led_data *led = ldev_to_led(led_cdev);
>    288  
>    289          dev_dbg(&led->client->dev, "%s: %s, %d\n",
>    290                  __func__, led_cdev->name, brightness);
>    291  
>    292          led->status = brightness;
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>    293          schedule_work(&led->work);
>    294  }
>
>
> led->status should be values between 0-3.  brightness is 0, 127 and
> 255.
> 

Hi Dan, thanks for reporting that.

AFAICS this is not a problem _in_practice_ as lp3944_led_set_brightness
() is called by the leds framework with brightness values already
limited by max_brightness, so it is always 0 or 1 in our case. The
sparse warning is not pretty tho, so I guess we can safely get rid of it
anyways with:

	led->status = !!brightness;

keeping track of LP3944_LED_STATUS_OFF and LP3944_LED_STATUS_ON only in
lp3944_led_set_brightness() is OK, as the handling of DIM (blinking)
mode[s] is in lp3944_led_set_blink().

I am following up with a patch in that direction tomorrow, after a test
on the actual hardware.

This is the rationale behind the current code if it is of any interest:
in the development phase of the driver I was abusing brightness = {2,3}
to trigger the hardware blinking function, but then I set the
max_brightness to 1 and so this abusing mechanism became inactive and I
must have forgotten about it.

Thanks again.

Regards,
   Antonio

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