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Message-Id: <1362431835-21443-1-git-send-email-peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 22:17:15 +0100
From: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>
To: Kent Yoder <key@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>,
Kent Yoder <shpedoikal@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon: Add small comment about return value of __i2c_transfer
Kent Yoder indicated that the code might be a bit clearer with a comment
here, so this patch adds a small explanation of the code.
CC: Kent Yoder <shpedoikal@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>
---
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon.c
index d83bb8c..37d5dcc 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon.c
@@ -162,6 +162,10 @@ out:
/* take care of 'guard time' */
usleep_range(SLEEP_DURATION_LOW, SLEEP_DURATION_HI);
+ /* __i2c_transfer returns the number of successfully transferred
+ * messages.
+ * So rc should be greater than 0 here otherwise we have an error.
+ */
if (rc <= 0)
return -EIO;
@@ -208,6 +212,11 @@ static int iic_tpm_write_generic(u8 addr, u8 *buffer, size_t len,
i2c_unlock_adapter(tpm_dev.client->adapter);
/* take care of 'guard time' */
usleep_range(SLEEP_DURATION_LOW, SLEEP_DURATION_HI);
+
+ /* __i2c_transfer returns the number of successfully transferred
+ * messages.
+ * So rc should be greater than 0 here otherwise we have an error.
+ */
if (rc <= 0)
return -EIO;
--
1.7.12.4
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