On 09/09/11 17:14, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 10:44:57AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote: >> On 09/08/11 17:27, Mark Brown wrote: > >>> Please do a patch adding padding separately - that does seem like a >>> useful thing to have in general, with the option of having it both >>> before and after the register. > >> Happy to do it separately, but not sure the padding before the register >> address is a real use case. You pad after to give the device time to >> respond, before doesn't make much sense to me on a register based device... >> I'll change the naming to make it explicit that it is after the register though >> so as to leave room for this to be added in future. > > Some devices apparently use an entire byte or word with a magic flag in > it to distinguish reads and writes. These end up looking like 16 bit > registers with only the lower 8 bits actually used in the current code. Ah, fair enough there is a use case. Can we add this as an additional patch when needed? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
