linux-kernel - Re: [Resend Patch 7/9] I2C/ACPI: Add i2c ACPI operation region support

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Message-ID: <5357691E.5020007@intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:17:50 +0800
From:	Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@...el.com>
To:	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	wsa@...-dreams.de, rjw@...ysocki.net, awilliam@...hat.com,
	lenb@...nel.org, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Resend Patch 7/9] I2C/ACPI: Add i2c ACPI operation region support

On 2014年04月23日 15:28, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 09:53:21AM +0800, Lan Tianyu wrote:
>> Hi Mika:
>> 	Thanks a lot for your review.
>>
>> On 2014年04月22日 19:36, Mika Westerberg wrote:
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	client.adapter = adapter;
>>>>> +	client.addr = sb->slave_address;
>>>>> +	client.flags = 0;
>>> I'm not sure if this is the correct way to use struct i2c_client
>>> (allocating it from stack and passing forward to functions that might
>>> expect a real i2c_client structure). It has ->dev and all.
>>
>> I check all i2c_smbus_xxx helper functions and they are simple wrappers
>> of i2c_smbus_xfer(). Only adapter, addr and flags of struct client are
>> used in these functions.
> 
> In that case I suppose it is OK to (ab)use the client structure like this.
> 
> I think you still want to initialize the whole structure (unused fields
> with zero) before passing it to the wrappers.
> 

Ok. I will do that.

-- 
Best regards
Tianyu Lan
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