linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] i2c: core: Add support for best effort block read emulation

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Date:	Fri, 14 Aug 2015 20:23:10 +0200
From:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:	Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@...el.com>
Cc:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...el.com>,
	Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@...erw.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] i2c: core: Add support for best effort block read
 emulation

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 05:31:33PM +0300, Irina Tirdea wrote:
> There are devices that need to handle block transactions
> regardless of the capabilities exported by the adapter.
> For performance reasons, they need to use i2c read blocks
> if available, otherwise emulate the block transaction with word
> or byte transactions.
> 
> Add support for a helper function that would read a data block
> using the best transfer available: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_I2C_BLOCK,
> I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_WORD_DATA or I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BYTE_DATA.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@...el.com>

This looks concise, thanks for the rework

Applied to for-next, thanks!

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