Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:21:43 +0100 | From | Jean Delvare <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH]I2C device - release cleanup |
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:02:41 +0000, jhautbois@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Jean, > > < snip > > > Did you test your patch? I am very skeptical that calling > > > single_release() out of the blue is the right thing to do. My instinct > > > tells me that single_release() is only meant for callers of > > > single_open(). > > Well, using this call works fine with my hardware. > I would say, as before :). > Looking at the source code of single_release, this is very similar to what > is done today. > > But yes, it would also be interesting to use single_open in the open() > syscall. > I think this would be nicer to use only single_*() functions. > > Maybe is it interesting to submit a patch that does a cleanup for all the > i2c-dev file ? And not only the release function ?
Yes, that would be better. If you do that, please make sure to run your patch through scripts/checkpatch.pl before sending it.
-- Jean Delvare
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