Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:21:55 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] readX_relaxed interface | From | (Jesse Barnes) |
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:32:25PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > It looks ok, but it would really be good if we could indicate if the > read actually was successful. Right now some platforms can detect > faults and do not have a way to get that error back to the driver in a > sane manner. If we were to change the read* functions to look something > like: > int readb(void *addr, u8 *data); > it would be a world easier.
At one point, I thought it would be nice if it took a struct device * too, but that's probably a bit much.
> Now I'm not saying I want to change the existing interfaces to support > this, that's too much code to change for even me (and is a 2.7 thing.) > > Just wanted to put this idea in people's heads that we need to start > planning for something like it.
Sounds reasonable. It should be helpful.
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