Re: [PATCH v8 6/7] iio: accel: kionix-kx022a: Add a function to retrieve number of bytes in buffer

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Hello Andy,
Thank you for the review.

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 3:39 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 03:52:56PM +0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> > On 8/24/23 14:58, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 11:16:40PM +0200, Mehdi Djait wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > > + int ret, fifo_bytes;
> > > > +
> > > > + ret = regmap_read(data->regmap, KX022A_REG_BUF_STATUS_1, &fifo_bytes);
> > > > + if (ret) {
> > > > +         dev_err(data->dev, "Error reading buffer status\n");
> > > > +         return ret;
> > > > + }
> > > > +
> > > > + if (fifo_bytes == KX022A_FIFO_FULL_VALUE)
> > > > +         return KX022A_FIFO_MAX_BYTES;
> > > > +
> > > > + return fifo_bytes;
> > >
> > > This will be called each time ->get_fifo_bytes() called.
> > > Do you expect the fifo_bytes to be changed over times?
> > > Shouldn't we simply cache the value?
> >
> > I think this value tells how many samples there currently is in the FIFO.
> > Caching it does not sound meaningful unless I am missing something.
>
> I see. I think my confusion can be easily cured by renaming the callback to
>
>         get_amount_bytes_in_fifo()
>
> or
>
>         get_bytes_in_fifo()
>
> or alike.

or leave it as is. The function is documented:

@@ -99,6 +101,7 @@ struct device;
  * @inc5: interrupt control register 5
  * @inc6: interrupt control register 6
  * @xout_l: x-axis output least significant byte
+ * @get_fifo_bytes: function pointer to get number of bytes in the FIFO buffer
  */
 struct kx022a_chip_info {
  const char *name;
@@ -121,6 +124,7 @@ struct kx022a_chip_info {
  u8 inc5;
  u8 inc6;
  u8 xout_l;
+ int (*get_fifo_bytes)(struct kx022a_data *);
 };

--
Kind Regards
Mehdi Djait




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