Re: [PATCH 03/10] mfd: cros_ec: Allow static din/dout buffers with cros_ec_register()

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2014, Doug Anderson wrote:

> From: Bill Richardson <wfrichar@chromium.org>
> 
> The lower-level driver may want to provide its own buffers. If so,
> there's no need to allocate new ones.  This already happens to work
> just fine (since we check for size of 0 and use devm allocation), but
> it's good to document it.
> 
> [dianders: Resolved conflicts; documented that no code changes needed
> on mainline]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bill Richardson <wfrichar@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/mfd/cros_ec.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mfd/cros_ec.h b/include/linux/mfd/cros_ec.h
> index 7e9fe6e..2ee3190 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mfd/cros_ec.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mfd/cros_ec.h
> @@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ struct cros_ec_msg {
>   * We use this alignment to keep ARM and x86 happy. Probably word
>   * alignment would be OK, there might be a small performance advantage
>   * to using dword.
> - * @din_size: size of din buffer
> - * @dout_size: size of dout buffer
> + * @din_size: size of din buffer to allocate (zero to use static din)
> + * @dout_size: size of dout buffer to allocate (zero to use static dout)

Why don't these use your new format i.e. doutsize, etc?

>   * @command_send: send a command
>   * @command_recv: receive a command
>   * @ec_name: name of EC device (e.g. 'chromeos-ec')

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Lee Jones
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