linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: tps65219: fix Wextra warning

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Message-ID: <Y5tPyOqSNud7LumS@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:48:08 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Jerome Neanne <jneanne@...libre.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Axel Lin <axel.lin@...ics.com>,
        Yang Li <yang.lee@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@...wei.com>,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: tps65219: fix Wextra warning

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 05:41:28PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> -		tps65219_get_rdev_by_name(irq_type->regulator_name, rdevtbl, rdev);
> -		if (rdev < 0) {
> +		error = tps65219_get_rdev_by_name(irq_type->regulator_name, rdevtbl, rdev);
> +		if (error) {
>  			dev_err(tps->dev, "Failed to get rdev for %s\n",
>  				irq_type->regulator_name);
> -			return -EINVAL;
> +			return error;

This will shut up the warning but is leaving the use of the
uninitialised rdev (which I'm kind of disappointed the static checkers
didn't pick up on).  rdev needs to be passed by reference into the
function, or set from the return value.

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