linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/16 v2] Input: atmel_mxt_ts

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Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:34:46 +0200
From:	"Henrik Rydberg" <rydberg@...omail.se>
To:	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>
Cc:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@...sung.com>,
	Nick Dyer <nick.dyer@...ev.co.uk>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>,
	Yufeng Shen <miletus@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/16 v2] Input: atmel_mxt_ts - refactor reading object
 table

> > Putting this conversion in a function would be nice, it would also
> > make it clear that the inverse, used for writing, is currently
> > missing. Alternatively, how about making the object struct actually
> > match the read data? To top it off, one could introduce a collection,
> > prepending the buffer size, making the write operation trivial.
> 
> AFAIK, there is no corresponding "object table" write. The "object
> table" (maybe more aptly named the "object descriptor table") is an
> immutable blob read from firmware that describes some actual data
> objects elsewhere in device memory.  It is those actual objects that
> are writable.  When they are written, it is the actual size, location
> and number of instances (not their raw '-1' values) that is useful.

I am talking about the data that is being read here and written in
mxt_check_reg_init(). By matching the struct with that data, all the
copies you make would go away.

Henrik
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