linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hwmon: sht3x: initialize variable 'ret' in update_interval

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Message-ID: <fcf6c291-63d2-4270-881f-1e97d3854ae4@web.de>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2025 13:57:56 +0200
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Ranganath V N <vnranganath.20@...il.com>, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
 Günter Röck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
 Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>
Cc: linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
 LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 David Hunter <david.hunter.linux@...il.com>, khalid@...nel.org,
 Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: sht3x: initialize variable 'ret' in
 update_interval_write().

…
> To address this, initialize 'ret' to 'SHT3X_CMD_LENGTH'. this makes

                                                           Make?

> the no-operation path return success while keeping the existing error
> to all other paths.
…

See also:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.17#n94

Regards,
Markus