linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regmap: add iopoll-like polling macro

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Date:	Fri, 8 Jul 2016 16:39:25 +0200
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regmap: add iopoll-like polling macro

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 12:01:43PM +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 07.07.2016, 11:42 +0200 schrieb Mark Brown:
> > On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 04:19:41PM +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote:

> > > This patch adds a macro regmap_read_poll_timeout that works similar
> > > to the readx_poll_timeout defined in linux/iopoll.h, except that this
> > > can also return the error value returned by a failed regmap_read.

> > Please make this a proper function.

> I can't, the condition has to be evaluated inside the loop. This is
> basically a poor man's function template.

Given that the condition is always going to be essentially the same one
checking that (read & mask) == value we could just parameterize it
couldn't we?

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