Re: [PATCH] regmap: Fix i2c word access when using SMBus access functions

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 02/02/2015 03:56 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 11:26:23AM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>> On 02/02/2015 12:48 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>
>>> -		return &regmap_smbus_word;
>>> +			if (config->val_format_endian == REGMAP_ENDIAN_LITTLE)
>
>> This should probably use regmap_get_val_endian() and maybe also handle
>> REGMAP_ENDIAN_NATIVE.
>
That means I'll have to make the function global and pass NULL
as bus argument, which ultimately means that it is going to return
either config->val_format_endian or REGMAP_ENDIAN_BIG. I didn't do that
because I thought it has no value, but no problem.

> Yes, we really ought to handle _NATIVE too (though the chances of it
> being used with I2C are minimal, it's mostly for MMIO).  This also feels

Well, we do; it is handled similar to the big endian case with the current
code. Do you think it should be handled differently ? If yes, how ?

> like it's something that should be being handled further up the stack in
> the serialization code but given that there's direct functions for this
> in the smbus code perhaps it's better here.  Or perhaps the smbus
> support ought to be transitioned to use the bus interface and set
> reg_write() and reg_read() operations now that we can do that, it seems
> like a better fit though it might break compatibility with wierd devices.
>
I thought about that, but since the smbus functions perform endianness
conversion it would mean that I would have to undo that conversion just
to have it done again.

Thanks,
Guenter