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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:53:48 +0100
From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
CC: Bryan Freed <bfreed@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
jbrenner@...sinc.com, gregkh@...e.de, arnd@...db.de,
"linux-iio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-iio@...r.kernel.org>,
Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...durent.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] light sensor: Add SMBUS support to the tsl2563 driver.
On 06/22/11 15:10, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:05:44 +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 06/21/11 23:54, Bryan Freed wrote:
>>> This is so we can support it on x86 SMBUS adapters.
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> Please cc linux-iio@...r.kernel.org for iio patches. Also this driver has fairly
>> clear authorship at the top, so more for your cc list. (added)
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bryan Freed <bfreed@...omium.org>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2563.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>> 1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2563.c b/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2563.c
>>> index 9cffa2e..04aa155 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2563.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2563.c
>>> @@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ struct tsl2563_chip {
>>> u32 data1;
>>> };
>>>
>>> +static int use_smbus;
>
> Global variables are bad.
+1
>
>>> +
>>> static int tsl2563_write(struct i2c_client *client, u8 reg, u8 value)
>>> {
>>> int ret;
>>> @@ -145,15 +147,35 @@ static int tsl2563_write(struct i2c_client *client, u8 reg, u8 value)
>>> buf[0] = TSL2563_CMD | reg;
>>> buf[1] = value;
>>>
>>> + if (use_smbus) {
>>> + ret = i2c_smbus_write_byte_data(client, buf[0], value);
>>> + return ret;
>>> + }
>>> +
>> Here I'd prefer to see this in an else block to make the program flow clear. Same with the others.
>> Actually, is there any reason we can't use the smbus_write_byte_data for all cases? I 'think'
>> it's emulated via i2c if that is available and smbus is not? (cc'd Jean to confirm this - though
>> a quick code browse of i2c-core.c looks promising.)
>>
>> If smbus_xfer is not supplied by the adapter, i2c_smbus_xfer_emulated is called.
>
> You are totally right. Just use smbus all the time and be done with it.
>
>> The only possible issue I can think of is that a device supports full i2c + a partial smbus
>> support. (rather odd!)
>
> That would be up to the underlying I2C bus driver to handle, not the
> I2C device drivers individually.
Cool. Good to have that confirmed.
>
>>> ret = i2c_master_send(client, buf, sizeof(buf));
>>> return (ret == sizeof(buf)) ? 0 : ret;
>>> }
>>>
>>> -static int tsl2563_read(struct i2c_client *client, u8 reg, void *buf, int len)
>>> +static int tsl2563_read(struct i2c_client *client, u8 reg, u8 *buf, int len)
>>> {
>>> int ret;
>>> u8 cmd = TSL2563_CMD | reg;
>>>
>>> + if (use_smbus) {
>>> + if (len == 1) {
>>> + ret = i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(client, cmd);
>>> + buf[0] = ret & 0xff;
>>> + } else if (len == 2) {
>>> + ret = i2c_smbus_read_word_data(client, cmd);
>>> + buf[0] = ret & 0xff;
>>> + buf[1] = (ret >> 8) & 0xff;
>
> swab16 is your friend (and the bogus SMBus byte order convention be
> damned.)
I would imagine the be16_to_cpu etc is even better as we don't know the
cpu endianess.
>
>>> + } else
>>> + ret = -1;
>> If we hit this something has gone hideously wrong. Hence please
>> audit the driver to be sure this doesn't happen and don't bother
>> with this extra option.
>
> +1 In fact the whole tsl2563_read interface should be revisited.
> Passing the length as a parameter makes no sense when using the SMBus
> API. Just have tsl2563_read8() which reads a byte and tsl2563_read16()
> which reads a word, this will be much more efficient, and you get
> proper type checking for free.
Agreed.
>
>>> + if (ret < 0)
>>> + return 0; /* failure */
>> Please return the error, not 0 in event of failure.
>>> + return len; /* success */
>>> + }
>>> +
>>> ret = i2c_master_send(client, &cmd, sizeof(cmd));
>>> if (ret != sizeof(cmd))
>>> return ret;
>>> @@ -712,6 +734,11 @@ static int __devinit tsl2563_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
>>> int err = 0;
>>> int ret;
>>> u8 id;
>>> + u32 smbus_func = I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_BYTE_DATA | I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WORD_DATA;
>> Can this be const? Oddly, the answer looks to be no. Given its an inline
>
> I see no reason why not.
oops. as below, I was clearly asleep this morning...
>
>> in i2c.h, can't see why this one isn't const. Jean, am I missing something
>> or wouldn't:
>> diff --git a/include/linux/i2c.h b/include/linux/i2c.h
>> index a6c652e..be5515d 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/i2c.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/i2c.h
>> @@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ static inline u32 i2c_get_functionality(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
>> }
>>
>> /* Return 1 if adapter supports everything we need, 0 if not. */
>> -static inline int i2c_check_functionality(struct i2c_adapter *adap, u32 func)
>> +static inline int i2c_check_functionality(struct i2c_adapter *adap, const u32 func)
>> {
>> return (func & i2c_get_functionality(adap)) == func;
>> }
>>
>> Be a sensible change?
>
> This is technically correct, as the function doesn't modify the
> parameter, however this change has no effect on the caller. func is
> passed by value, not address, so the caller doesn't care at all whether
> i2c_check_functionality modifies it locally or not.
Doh. I'm half asleep today and failed to notice it wasn't a pointer.
>
> There are a lot of places where such by-value parameters could be made
> const, however nobody bothers, because it makes the function
> declarations harder to read for virtually no benefit (as opposed to
> const pointers, which do have value for the caller.)
>
>> For that matter, this code should probably just have that
>> value inline in the function call as it isn't used anywhere else.
>
> +1
>
>>
>>> + /* We support both I2C and SMBUS adapter interfaces. */
>>> + if (i2c_check_functionality(client->adapter, smbus_func))
>>> + use_smbus = 1;
>>>
>>> indio_dev = iio_allocate_device(sizeof(*chip));
>>> if (!indio_dev)
>>
>
>
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