[PATCH][next] mtd: rawnand: ensure return variable is initialized

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Mon Jun 7 23:10:18 PDT 2021


On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 08:57:11AM +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> 
> In the ONFI specification, the sdr_timing_mode field is defined as
> follow:
> 
> SDR timing mode support
> BIT  VALUE MEANING
> 6-15 N/A   Reserved (0)
> 5    1     supports timing mode 5
> 4    1     supports timing mode 4
> 3    1     supports timing mode 3
> 2    1     supports timing mode 2
> 1    1     supports timing mode 1
> 0    1     supports timing mode 0, shall be 1
> 
> IOW sdr_timing_modes *cannot* be 0, or it is a truly deep and crazily
> impacting hardware bug (so far I am not aware of any chip not returning
> the right timing mode 0 value). Hence my proposal to turn best_mode as
> unsigned. I honestly don't know what is the best option here and am
> fully open to other suggestions to silence the robot.

If the hardware is broken we should just return -EINVAL.

regards,
dan carpenter




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