i2c-core: Return -Errno, not -1

More updates to the I2C stack's fault reporting:  make the core stop
returning "-1" (usually "-EPERM") for all faults.  Instead, pass lower
level fault code up the stack, or return some appropriate errno.

This patch happens to touch almost exclusively SMBus calls.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
index d4cd4126d1ad..ba5d1971f35f 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
@@ -598,10 +598,10 @@ be added back later if needed:
                                           u8 command, u8 length,
                                           u8 *values)
 
-All these transactions return -1 on failure. The 'write' transactions 
-return 0 on success; the 'read' transactions return the read value, except 
-for read_block, which returns the number of values read. The block buffers 
-need not be longer than 32 bytes.
+All these transactions return a negative errno value on failure. The 'write'
+transactions return 0 on success; the 'read' transactions return the read
+value, except for block transactions, which return the number of values
+read. The block buffers need not be longer than 32 bytes.
 
 You can read the file `smbus-protocol' for more information about the
 actual SMBus protocol.