linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iio: chemical: bme680: Add check for val2 in the write

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Message-ID: <20180819200820.3ad2252a@archlinux>
Date:   Sun, 19 Aug 2018 20:08:20 +0100
From:   Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To:     Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>
Cc:     dpfrey@...il.com, daniel.baluta@...il.com,
        linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: chemical: bme680: Add check for val2 in the
 write_raw function

On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 22:40:14 +0530
Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 05:25:14PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 15:56:36 +0530
> > Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > val2 is responsible for the floating part of the number to be
> > > written to the device. We don't need the floating part
> > > while writing the oversampling ratio for BME680 since the
> > > available oversampling ratios are pure natural numbers.
> > > 
> > > So, add a sanity check to make sure val2 is 0.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>  
> > 
> > As discussed in David's patch series v3, I think this is still relevant
> > but now needs an update to cover the new code.  
> 
> I already had informed David to reabse his series on top of my patch
> and he rebased this patch series.
> 
> So, it should apply cleanly without any further effort.
> 
> If it doesn't, then ping me.

Meh, was only some trivial fuzz. I thought things had changed more than that
as hadn't noticed you just applied it at the top of write_raw as all the
things that can be written in this driver are integers.

Anyhow, applied now.  Thanks,

Jonathan
>