linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] regmap: debugfs: Allow writes to cache state settings

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Date:	Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:26:51 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Richard Fitzgerald <rf@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, patches@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] regmap: debugfs: Allow writes to cache state settings

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 05:10:44PM +0100, Richard Fitzgerald wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 04:49:15PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Can we not export read/write_file_bool() instead?  For the read this
> > seems to be an almost cut'n'paste with slight differences that look
> > like taste changes.  For the write path we can just stash the current
> > value in the calling functions instead of cut'n'pasting the code.

> They assume that file->private_data points at the actual bool, and
> it doesn't here, which means temporarily patching it around the call.

Or you could use container_of() in your wrappers for the write path.

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