Re: [PATCH 9/13] drivers/media/tuners/fc0011.c: use macros for i2c_msg initialization

[Michael Büsch]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2012 18:50:31 +0200 (CEST)
Julia Lawall <julia.law...@lip6.fr> wrote:

> >> @@ -97,10 +96,8 @@ static int fc0011_readreg(struct fc0011_priv *priv, u8 
> >> reg, u8 *val)
> >>  {
> >>    u8 dummy;
> >>    struct i2c_msg msg[2] = {
> >> -          { .addr = priv->addr,
> >> -            .flags = 0, .buf = &reg, .len = 1 },
> >> -          { .addr = priv->addr,
> >> -            .flags = I2C_M_RD, .buf = val ? : &dummy, .len = 1 },
> >> +          I2C_MSG_WRITE(priv->addr, &reg, sizeof(reg)),
> >> +          I2C_MSG_READ(priv->addr, val ? : &dummy, sizeof(dummy)),
> >>    };
> >>
> >
> > This dummy looks strange, can it be that this is used uninitialised ?
> 
> I'm not sure to understand the question.  The read, when it happens in 
> i2c_transfer will initialize dummy.  On the other hand, I don't know what 
> i2c_transfer does when the buffer is NULL and the size is 1.  It does not 
> look very elegant at least.

Well its use case is if you only care about the side effects and not the actual 
data
returned by the read operation.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.

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