Re: [PATCH] i2c/busses: (mpc) Add support for SMBUS_READ_BLOCK_DATA

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On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:14:47 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 14:02 -0500, Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote:
> > I think it's very important to keep the order as-is, if at all
> > possible.  This driver is very old and the hardware is used on all of
> > our SOCs, dating back several years.  It would be a nightmare to test
> > it all over again.
>
> I'll see if I can work around that. 1-byte block reads may be tricky,
> though, but maybe I can get that working as well.

IMHO it's OK if 1-byte blocks are not supported. In practice the length
of blocks seems to be known in advance and it's never 1. We can revisit
if this is ever needed in practice for this specific bus driver.

-- 
Jean Delvare
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