[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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