Re: [PATCH 5/6] staging: iio: tsl2x7x: refactor {read,write}_event_value to allow handling multiple iio_event_infos

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 06:37:07 -0400
Brian Masney <masneyb@onstation.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 10:40:20AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:03:51 -0400
> > Brian Masney <masneyb@onstation.org> wrote:
> >   
> > > tsl2x7x_read_thresh() and tsl2x7x_write_thresh() currently assumes
> > > that IIO_EV_INFO_VALUE is the only iio_event_info that will be
> > > passed in.  This patch refactors these two functions so that
> > > additional iio_event_infos can be passed in. The functions are
> > > renamed from tsl2x7x_{read,write}_thresh() to
> > > tsl2x7x_{read,write}_event_value(). This patch also adds the
> > > missing return value check to tsl2x7x_invoke_change() since this
> > > was previously missing.
> > >   
> > Hmm.. Why make this change?  Are there additional uses of this
> > function on the way?
> > 
> > If not I wouldn't necessarily worry about the naming or the
> > assumptions as the assumptions are enforced by the driver
> > anyway.  Nothing wrong with a bit of paranoid defence against
> > future  bugs, but it's not strictly necessary.  
> 
> I should have mentioned in the changelog that this change sets the
> driver up for migrating the in_intensity0_thresh_period
> and in_proximity0_thresh_period sysfs attributes to be created by
> iio_event_spec. This is one of the patches that I held back until
> I am able to properly test it.
Cool.  That's a good reason ;)
> 
> Brian
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