Re: [PATCH] mfd: arizona: Don't use regmap_read_poll_timeout

[Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 12:40:37PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 8:44 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 May 2018, Charles Keepax wrote:
> 
> >> +     while (true) {
> >> +             ret = regmap_read(arizona->regmap, reg, &val);
> >>
> >> +             if ((val & mask) == target)
> >> +                     return 0;
> >> +
> >> +             if (ktime_compare(ktime_get(), timeout) > 0)
> >> +                     break;
> >> +
> >> +             usleep_range(ARIZONA_REG_POLL_DELAY_US / 2,
> >> +                          ARIZONA_REG_POLL_DELAY_US);
> >> +     }
> 
> >From my point of view infinite loops not good for readability and maintenance.
> Perhaps
> 
> do {
> ...
> } while (ktime_compare(...));
> 
> ?

I would rather not do it that way since then it becomes
impossible to have a single poll with no delays happening. I can
refactor to remove the while(true) but it will make the code a
bit bigger, as I will probably need to duplicate some code
outside the loop.

Thanks,
Charles