Re: [PATCH] i2c: i801: Drop needless bit-wise OR

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On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 17:38:27 +0800, Daniel Kurtz wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Daniel,
> > >
> > > On Mon, 30 May 2016 22:07:55 +0800, Daniel Kurtz wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > The interrupt handling code makes it look like several status values
> > > > > may be merged together before being processed, while this will never
> > > > > happen. Change from bit-wise OR to simple assignment to make it more
> > > > > obvious and avoid misunderstanding.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > Daniel, was there any reason for this bit-wise OR, which I may be
> > > > > missing?
> > > >
> > > > The only thing I can think of is that I didn't want to assume that we
> > > > would always clear priv->status before another interrupt arrived.
> > >
> > > Well my question is quite clear: can this actually happen? I can't see
> > > how.
> >
> > I have no idea.  You'd have to ask Intel, I guess.
>
> You wrote the code based on public documentation, I thought you would
> know. But if you can't be bothered, never mind, I'll trust my
> understanding of the code.

Here is the documentation:
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/datasheet/io-controller-hub-6-datasheet.pdf
Page 570

I thought maybe there were situations where you could get INTR and an
error condition, but I don't see anything like that in the
documentation, so I think you are right and only one bit will be set
at a time.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


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> Jean Delvare
> SUSE L3 Support
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