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SubjectRe: [PATCH 13/13] drivers/media/tuners/e4000.c: use macros for i2c_msg initialization
Hi Julia,

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:45:43 +0200 (CEST), Julia Lawall wrote:
> I found 6 cases where there are more than 2 messages in the array. I
> didn't check how many cases where there are two messages but there is
> something other than one read and one write.
>
> Perhaps a reasonable option would be to use
>
> I2C_MSG_READ
> I2C_MSG_WRITE
> I2C_MSG_READ_OP
> I2C_MSG_WRITE_OP
>
> The last two are for the few cases where more flags are specified. As
> compared to the original proposal of I2C_MSG_OP, these keep the READ or
> WRITE idea in the macro name. The additional argument to the OP macros
> would be or'd with the read or write (nothing to do in this case) flags as
> appropriate.
>
> Mauro proposed INIT_I2C_READ_SUBADDR for the very common case where a
> message array has one read and one write. I think that putting one
> I2C_MSG_READ and one I2C_MSG_WRITE in this case is readable enough, and
> avoids the need to do something special for the cases that don't match the
> expectations of INIT_I2C_READ_SUBADDR.
>
> I propose not to do anything for the moment either for sizes or for
> message or buffer arrays that contain only one element.

Please note that I resigned from my position of i2c subsystem
maintainer, so I will not handle this. If you think this is important,
you'll have to resubmit and Wolfram will decide what he wants to do
about it.

--
Jean Delvare


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