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From: Juergen Borleis <jbe@pengutronix.de>
To: kernel@pengutronix.de
Cc: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] RTC/PCF85063: fix time/date reading (part II)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 11:12:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201601071112.52284.jbe@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449496174-7813-3-git-send-email-jbe@pengutronix.de>

Hi Alexandre,

(please keep me on CC...)

> [...]
> > -	/* read registers */
> > -	if ((i2c_transfer(client->adapter, msgs, 2)) != 2) {
> > -		dev_err(&client->dev, "%s: read error\n", __func__);
> > -		return -EIO;
>
> Isn't that already reading the time and date register in one block? I'd
> say you are simply reading less registers. Also, maybe you could use
> i2c_smbus_read_block_data?

Its just a "try" to make the code more readable, by a named subfunction and 
more comments why things must happen that way.
Will check for the suggested smbus function.

Regards,
Juergen

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-07 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-07 13:49 [PATCH] RTC/PCF85063: fix reading/setting time/date Juergen Borleis
2015-12-07 13:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] RTC/PCF85063: fix time/date reading (part 1) Juergen Borleis
2015-12-07 13:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] RTC/PCF85063: fix time/date reading (part II) Juergen Borleis
2015-12-20 11:35   ` Alexandre Belloni
2016-01-07 10:12   ` Juergen Borleis [this message]
2016-01-21  0:04     ` Alexandre Belloni
2015-12-07 13:49 ` [PATCH 3/3] RTC/PCF85063: fix time/date setting Juergen Borleis
2015-12-20 11:46   ` Alexandre Belloni
2016-01-07 10:13   ` Juergen Borleis

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