linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] USB: serial: cp210x: Implement 16-bit register access functions

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Date:	Tue, 20 Oct 2015 07:20:17 -0500
From:	Konstantin Shkolnyy <konstantin.shkolnyy@...il.com>
To:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
Cc:	Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] USB: serial: cp210x: Implement 16-bit register access functions

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:45 AM, Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 17:01 -0500, Konstantin Shkolnyy wrote:
[...]
>> +static int cp210x_read_u16_reg(struct usb_serial *serial, u8 req, u16 *pval)
>> +{
>> +     struct cp210x_serial_private *spriv = usb_get_serial_data(serial);
>> +     __le16 le16_value;
>
> 1. If you already get passed a pointer to a buffer, why use another
> buffer?

Because I want to preserve the caller's value in the case of an error.
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