linux-kernel - [PATCH resend] ov7670: clean up ov7670

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Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:52:16 -0400
From:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Cortland Setlow <csetlow@...er-research.com>, corbet@....net,
	video4linux-list@...hat.com,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH resend] ov7670: clean up ov7670_read semantics

[note: this should probably go in for 2.6.26, as it fixes a bug in
ov7670_s_fmt where we incorrectly think that we've failed because we
return !0]


Cortland Setlow pointed out a bug in ov7670.c where the result from
ov7670_read() was just being checked for !0, rather than <0.  This
made me realize that ov7670_read's semantics were rather confusing;
it both fills in 'value' with the result, and returns it.  This is
goes against general kernel convention; so rather than fixing callers,
let's fix the function.

This makes ov7670_read return <0 in the case of an error, and 0 upon
success. Thus, code like:

res = ov7670_read(...);
if (!res)
	goto error;

..will work properly.

Signed-off-by: Cortland Setlow <csetlow@...er-research.com>
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ian.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
---
 drivers/media/video/ov7670.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/video/ov7670.c b/drivers/media/video/ov7670.c
index 2bc6bdc..d7bfd30 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/ov7670.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/ov7670.c
@@ -406,8 +406,10 @@ static int ov7670_read(struct i2c_client *c,
unsigned char reg, int ret;
 
 	ret = i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(c, reg);
-	if (ret >= 0)
+	if (ret >= 0) {
 		*value = (unsigned char) ret;
+		ret = 0;
+	}
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
1.5.5.3
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