linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] hwmon: ina3221: Add enable sysfs nodes

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Date:   Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:26:14 -0700
From:   Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@...il.com>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     jdelvare@...e.com, corbet@....net, afd@...com,
        linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] hwmon: ina3221: Add enable sysfs nodes

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 06:06:32AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > +static inline bool ina3221_is_enable(struct ina3221_data *ina, int channel)
> 
> s/is_enable/is_enabled/, maybe ?

Fixing.

> > +	return (config & INA3221_CONFIG_CHx_EN(channel)) > 0;
> 
> The "> 0" is unnecessary. Conversion to bool is automatic. If you want to make
> it explicit, please use
> 
> 	return !!(config & INA3221_CONFIG_CHx_EN(channel));

Removing "> 0".

> It should not be necessary to re-read the value from the chip all the time.
> I would suggest to cache the value in the 'disabled' variable.

Regarding this part, I added a cache before sending this one. But
I realized if the chip got powered off and rebooted during system
suspend/resume, the cache would not reflect the actual status. As
I mentioned earlier, this was enlightened by your comments about
the BIOS. So I feel it'd be safer to read the register every time
at this point, until I add the suspend/resume feature by syncing
with regcache. What do you think about it?

> > +	ret = kstrtoint(buf, 0, &val);
> > +	if (ret)
> > +		return ret;
> > +
> > +	/* inX_enable only accepts 1 for enabling or 0 for disabling */
> > +	if (val != 0 && val != 1)
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> Just use kstrtobool().

Fixing.

Thanks
Nicolin