Re: [PATCH 1/2] i2c: i801: Drop useless masking in i801_access

[Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>]

Hi Wolfram,

On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 22:13:27 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 05:28:59PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > I went all the way back to kernel 2.6.12 and that masking was never
> > needed. I suppose it was there in anticipation of software PEC
> > support, but that was never added to the driver (and never will be,
> > as this is made obsolete by hardware PEC).
> > 
> > I'm also removing initialization to 0, which is not needed either,
> > and would prevent the compiler from reporting an actual usage of
> > uninitialized variables.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>  
> 
> Applied to for-next, thanks!
> 
> Jean, there are still some patches pending for i801, mainly from Heiner
> and an interesting one from Hector. Do you have time for these?
> 
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-i2c/list/?series=&submitter=&state=&q=i801&archive=&delegate=

Yes, they are on my to-do list and not forgotten. Just I had a fairly
busy January and February. Plus I am currently investigating 2 i2c-i801
issues that have been reported to me privately, and I'd rather get them
fixed first before we continue with driver cleanups.

Stay tuned,
-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support