Re: clean up and warnings patch for 2.6.12-rc4-mm1 i2c-chip

["Jean Delvare" <khali@linux-fr.org>]

Hi Alexey,

> with module w83627hf  i found useful due  detection return -ENODEV
> because I can see in commandline if it's some thing wrong. If it's not
> correct, there is a bug in the w83627hf and some other drivers.
>
> int w83627hf_detect(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, int address,
>                    int kind)
> {
>         int val;
>         struct i2c_client *new_client;
>         struct w83627hf_data *data;
>         int err = 0;
>         const char *client_name = "";
>
>         if (!i2c_is_isa_adapter(adapter)) {
>                 err = -ENODEV;
>                 goto ERROR0;
>         }

This is actually not correct if you consider the i2c_detect() design, but
happens to cause no problem in this specific case - and, ironically,
might even speed up the detection loop.

The way i2c_detect() works for now, it will stop probing a given adapter
as soon as one address probed on that bus returned an error. As it
happens that i2c_is_isa_adapter(adapter) is either true or false for all
addresses of a given adapter, skipping to the next adapter directly when
the bus type (isa or not) doesn't match actually makes sense.

At any rate, I have plans to rework the way ISA hardware monitoring chips
are handled, so this code is likely to be gone in a near future anyway
(providing I can actually find the time to work on this... sigh). Things
should be much clearer after that.

Thanks,
--
Jean Delvare
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