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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>,
	w.sang@pengutronix.de, ben-linux@fluff.org,
	swarren@wwwdotorg.org, olof@lixom.net, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 2/2] i2c: tegra: support for I2C_M_NOSTART protocol mangling
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:40:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120424124030.GD13747@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120424143241.0d66fd2e@endymion.delvare>

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On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 02:32:41PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:

> Please keep in mind that support for I2C_M_NOSTART at the bus driver
> level is optional. This means that device drivers are encouraged to not
> rely on it unconditionally. Originally the flag was meant to workaround

Yeah, for regmap we certainly have a fallback to kmalloc() a buffer as
needed in there already.  Like I say it's just an optimisation.

> If you want to do scatter-gather for I2C messages, I understand the
> benefit and I have no objection, and I agree that I2C_M_NOSTART lets
> you do that, but then:

> * We should allocate a new functionality flag for it.
> * We should update the documentation to reflect the two use cases.

That sounds like a good plan.  I'll try to get round to it if nobody
beats me to it.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-24 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-24  7:19 [PATCH V1 0/2] i2c: tegra: 10 bit and M_NOSTART support Laxman Dewangan
2012-04-24  7:19 ` [PATCH V1 1/2] i2c: tegra: fix 10bit address configuration Laxman Dewangan
2012-04-24  8:58   ` Jean Delvare
2012-05-03  6:13     ` Laxman Dewangan
2012-05-03  8:18       ` Wolfram Sang
2012-05-03  8:20         ` Laxman Dewangan
2012-04-24  7:19 ` [PATCH V1 2/2] i2c: tegra: support for I2C_M_NOSTART protocol mangling Laxman Dewangan
2012-04-24  8:55   ` Jean Delvare
2012-04-24  9:21     ` Laxman Dewangan
2012-04-24 11:38       ` Mark Brown
2012-04-24 12:32       ` Jean Delvare
2012-04-24 12:40         ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-04-24 13:01           ` Wolfram Sang
2012-04-24 13:07             ` Jean Delvare
2012-04-24 13:28               ` Wolfram Sang
2012-05-10 11:24   ` Laxman Dewangan
2012-05-10 11:54     ` Jean Delvare
2012-05-10 12:20       ` Laxman Dewangan

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