linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 4/4] rtc: ds1307: add frequency_test_enable sysfs attribute to check tick on m41txx

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Message-ID: <CAHp75VdSHdtJA5E=KvkUyij8CcgpyVO1b63-XBR7MnhVeWDpWA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 20 Jul 2018 15:53:42 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@...ronovasrl.com>
Cc:     Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
        "open list:REAL TIME CLOCK (RTC) SUBSYSTEM" 
        <linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 4/4] rtc: ds1307: add frequency_test_enable sysfs
 attribute to check tick on m41txx

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 9:19 PM, Giulio Benetti
<giulio.benetti@...ronovasrl.com> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> Il 18/07/2018 18:26, Andy Shevchenko ha scritto:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 5:06 PM, Giulio Benetti
>> <giulio.benetti@...ronovasrl.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>> +       int ret;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +       ret = kstrtobool(buf, &freq_test_en);
>>>>> +       if (ret == -EINVAL) {
>>
>>
>>>> What kind of other error code you may expect and why they are not
>>>> considered as no error?
>>
>>
>>> According to documentation, kstrtobool can only fail with -EINVAL.
>>> See:
>>> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.18-rc5/source/lib/kstrtox.c#L332
>>
>>
>> That's correct. So, what do you want to show by explicitly mentioned
>> an error code in the condition?
>>
>
> So you mean I should check for negative values instead of specific error,
> right?

Learn from the existing code.

As you found kstrtobool() returns either 0 (no error), or -EINVAL (the
only possible error code for now).
Checking ret for non-zero is enough.
Thus,

if (ret) {
 ...
 return ret;
}

should do a job.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko