From: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: Added support for ds1672 control
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:41:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060329004122.64e91176@inspiron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08A09790-5D74-4089-AA7B-6AB5628A19DD@kernel.crashing.org>
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:04:20 -0600
Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> Not sure if I follow you here. I think you are suggesting for
> ds1672_get_control to look like:
>
> static int ds1672_get_control(struct i2c_client *client, u8 *status)
> {
> unsigned char addr = DS1672_REG_CONTROL;
>
> struct i2c_msg msgs[] = {
> { client->addr, 0, 1, &addr }, /* setup
> read ptr */
> { client->addr, I2C_M_RD, 1, status }, /* read
> control */
> };
> ...
> }
yes.
> which is fine. Any suggestions on what to do on an error in the
> sysfs attrib function?
i2c_transfer will give the errno to return back.
This remembers me that I forgot to do that in other drivers :(
--
Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo,
Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-28 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-28 21:07 [PATCH] rtc: Added support for ds1672 control Kumar Gala
2006-03-28 21:40 ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-28 22:04 ` Kumar Gala
2006-03-28 22:41 ` Alessandro Zummo [this message]
2006-03-28 22:55 ` [PATCH][UPDATE] " Kumar Gala
2006-03-28 23:48 ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-28 23:52 ` Kumar Gala
2006-03-28 23:57 ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-30 20:06 ` Kumar Gala
2006-03-30 20:26 ` Alessandro Zummo
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