On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 08:36:17PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > You must also update the description of I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING to > no longer mention I2C_M_NOSTART. For backwards ABI compatibility _PROTCOL_MANGING still has to imply _NOSTART, though it's unclear if that should be documented here. For drivers it should for the most part flow naturally as I'd expect they'll end up implementing one or more of the mangling flags anyway. For applications I guess it means that they should fall back to checking for _PROTOCOL_MANGLING if _NOSTART isn't there. > > +#define I2C_FUNC_NOSTART 0x10000000 /* I2C_M_NOSTART */ > Sorry for nitpicking but wouldn't I2C_FUNC_GATHER be a better name? > NOSTART is an implementation detail now, the high level feature is the > ability to gather multiple messages into one. I kept it this way mostly because it means that the capability flag has the same name as the feature flag which seemed helpful from a usability point of view. There is also the fact you could in theory also implement gather support in other ways (eg, using DMA) though at present there's no API level support for this and the users do have to code this specific implementation.
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