gpio: pca953x: do not ignore i2c errors

Per gpio_chip interface, error shall be proparated to the caller.

Attempt to silent diagnostics by returning zero (as written in the
comment) is plain wrong, because the zero return can be interpreted by
the caller as the gpio value.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrey Gusakov <andrey.gusakov@cogentembedded.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@cogentembedded.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c
index f5cfc0698799aa87d6b9bc0d13ef3d8b06c4b3b0..8ebf369b3ba0f49851fe2f5743741db2d0638f9a 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c
@@ -468,15 +468,8 @@ static int pca953x_gpio_get_value(struct gpio_chip *gc, unsigned off)
        mutex_lock(&chip->i2c_lock);
        ret = regmap_read(chip->regmap, inreg, &reg_val);
        mutex_unlock(&chip->i2c_lock);
-       if (ret < 0) {
-               /*
-                * NOTE:
-                * diagnostic already emitted; that's all we should
-                * do unless gpio_*_value_cansleep() calls become different
-                * from their nonsleeping siblings (and report faults).
-                */
-               return 0;
-       }
+       if (ret < 0)
+               return ret;
 
        return !!(reg_val & bit);
 }