[PATCH 1/2] Fix error checking in Vitesse IRQ config
Andy Fleming
afleming at freescale.com
Thu Jul 19 04:52:52 EST 2007
On Jul 18, 2007, at 02:00, pradeep singh wrote:
> On 7/18/07, Andy Fleming <afleming at freescale.com> wrote:
>> - if (err)
>> + if (err < 0)
>> return err;
>
> but would that mean, if phy_read returns > 0 it is a success?
Yes. phy_read() returns a 32-bit value. If there's an error, it
returns a negative number. If not, it returns whatever was in the
register (which is only 16 bits)
phy_write() returns 0 on success, and non-zero, otherwise. In
hindsight, it would have been better to be consistent.
Andy
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