Re: [PATCH 08/13 v4] drm/i915/intel_i2c: handle zero-length writes

[Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:32:27 +0800, Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@chromium.org> wrote:
> Unfortunately there is a bug in both my original patch (it wasn't
> incrementing loop), and in your suggested cleanup (it always
> decrements len, even when it is already 0... or if the loop test
> fails).  How about the following; despite its pythonic nature, it
> always completes with len holding the number of bytes remaining.
> 
> 	val = loop = 0;
> 	while (len && loop < 4) {
> 		val |= *buf++ << (8 * loop++);
> 		len -= 1;
> 	}

I'm getting over my aversion ;-)

As we are here, have you considered doing an optimised u32 variant whilst
len >= 4, which should be reasonably common during EDID transfer. Though
I am not sure if that loop is merely in the noise compared to the rest of
the mmio.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre