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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-iio@vger.kernel.orgi, Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>,
	linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@gmx.de>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
	Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>,
	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Use void pointers instead of char in I2C transfer APIs
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 22:01:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210111210108.GA17475@kunai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191112203132.163306-1-dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

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On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:31:29PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> While we indeed often deal with a stream of bytes when executing a
> transfer, at the higher layers we usually work with more structured
> data, and there is not really a reason to require casts to u8 * form the
> callers. These series change I2C APIs to accept [const] void pointers,
> and also adjust SMBUS implementation to use get/put_unaligned_16() and
> memcpy() for moving data around.

I just started to work on something SMBus, so I rediscovered this series
and will comment now.


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-11 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-12 20:31 [PATCH v3 0/3] Use void pointers instead of char in I2C transfer APIs Dmitry Torokhov
2019-11-12 20:31 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] i2c: use void pointers for supplying data for reads and writes Dmitry Torokhov
2019-11-13  9:47   ` Luca Ceresoli
2019-11-18  7:43   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-11-18  8:04     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2019-11-18  8:38       ` Uwe Kleine-König
2021-01-11 21:02         ` Wolfram Sang
2019-11-12 20:31 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] i2c: smbus: use get/put_unaligned_le16 when working with word data Dmitry Torokhov
2019-11-13  9:47   ` Luca Ceresoli
2019-11-13 19:39     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2019-11-14  9:23       ` Luca Ceresoli
2019-11-18  7:36   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2021-01-11 21:04     ` Wolfram Sang
2019-11-12 20:31 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] i2c: smbus: switch from loops to memcpy Dmitry Torokhov
2019-11-13  9:47   ` Luca Ceresoli
2019-11-18  7:47   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-11-18  8:09     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2019-11-18  8:47       ` Uwe Kleine-König
2021-01-11 21:04   ` Wolfram Sang
2021-01-11 21:01 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]

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