linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] backlight: lm3630a: return 0 on success in update

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Date:   Tue, 7 May 2019 10:53:07 +0100
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
Cc:     Brian Masney <masneyb@...tation.org>, jingoohan1@...il.com,
        robh+dt@...nel.org, jacek.anaszewski@...il.com, pavel@....cz,
        mark.rutland@....com, b.zolnierkie@...sung.com,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, dmurphy@...com, jonathan@...ek.ca,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel@...felineninja.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] backlight: lm3630a: return 0 on success in
 update_status functions

On Thu, 02 May 2019, Daniel Thompson wrote:

> On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 06:42:39AM -0400, Brian Masney wrote:
> > On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 11:07:51AM +0100, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> > > On 24/04/2019 10:25, Brian Masney wrote:
> > > > lm3630a_bank_a_update_status() and lm3630a_bank_b_update_status()
> > > > both return the brightness value if the brightness was successfully
> > > > updated. Writing to these attributes via sysfs would cause a 'Bad
> > > > address' error to be returned. These functions should return 0 on
> > > > success, so let's change it to correct that error.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Brian Masney <masneyb@...tation.org>
> > > > Fixes: 28e64a68a2ef ("backlight: lm3630: apply chip revision")
> > > > Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
> > > 
> > > Hi Brian, sorry for the delay. For some reason your mails are being dumped
> > > before they reach me so I only discovered these patches when I paid proper
> > > attention to the replies and fetched them from patchwork.
> > > 
> > > Hi Lee, is the same thing happening for you? ;-)
> > 
> > Huh, that's odd. I haven't ran into that issue when working with people
> > from Linaro in other subsystems.
> > 
> > As a sanity check, I used 'git send-email' to send this patch to
> > check-auth@...ifier.port25.com and it verified that I still have SPF,
> > DKIM, reverse DNS, etc. all setup properly on this domain.
> > 
> > hotmail.com addresses are the only ones I've had issues with in the
> > past, but I doubt you're forwarding your email there. :)
> 
> No... and strangely enough your recent e-mail sailed through just fine.
> Let's wait and see what is happening for Lee (which I suspect may not be
> until well into next week).

Just catching up now.  On first pass - only ~800 mails to go!

Looks like I do have Brian's mails though.

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]
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