linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/7] pwm: pca9685: Switch to atomic API

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Date:   Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:10:10 -0500
From:   Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@...il.com>
To:     Clemens Gruber <clemens.gruber@...ruber.com>
Cc:     linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>, Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        David Jander <david@...tonic.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/7] pwm: pca9685: Switch to atomic API

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 11:48 AM Clemens Gruber
<clemens.gruber@...ruber.com> wrote:
>
> I can initialize the values to 0 of course and check the file for other
> places with missing initializations.
>
> Or would it be better to check the return codes of regmap_read/write in
> such cases? I'm not sure.

I think that checking the regmap_read/write return values is overkill
in this driver. These functions can't realistically fail, except if the i2c
bus is bad, i.e. h/w failure or intermittency. And that's an externality
which I believe we can ignore.

Maybe Thierry or Uwe have further insights here.