linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 26/28] drm/i2c: tda998x: code optimization

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Message-ID: <20140112092201.764fb09c@armhf>
Date:	Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:22:01 +0100
From:	Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@...e.fr>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 26/28] drm/i2c: tda998x: code optimization

On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:55:09 +0000
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 12:07:25PM +0100, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> > This patch reduces the number of I2C exchanges by setting many bits in
> > one write and removing a useless write.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@...e.fr>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c   | 10 ++++------
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c
> > index 6b4f6d2..d3b3f3a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c
> > @@ -751,10 +751,10 @@ tda998x_configure_audio(struct tda998x_priv *priv,
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	reg_write(priv, REG_AIP_CLKSEL, clksel_aip);
> > -	reg_clear(priv, REG_AIP_CNTRL_0, AIP_CNTRL_0_LAYOUT);
> > +	reg_clear(priv, REG_AIP_CNTRL_0, AIP_CNTRL_0_LAYOUT |
> 
> This patch clearly hasn't even been build tested, so I doubt there's
> much point reviewing this or the following patches.  From a quick scan
> of the following patches, this never got fixed so the following patches
> can't have been build tested either.

I don't see what can be the problem with this patch. It does not change
anything in the logic. About testing, it is applied to my Cubox kernel
for more than 4 months and everything works correctly.

I will move the following comment a bit upwards. Maybe the code will be
clearer.

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