[PATCHv4 2/9] i2c: mv64xxx: make the registers offset configurable
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Jun 12 10:51:39 EDT 2013
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 04:44:47PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi Russel,
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 02:57:35PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > It'd be much better to copy the offsets themselves in drv_data. You're
> > only talking about 7 bytes here, so there's no worry about bloating the
> > drv_data structure.
>
> It was more about keeping things separated. Moreover, the probe
> function gets smaller, since you have only a pointer to pass on, instead
> of assigning those 7 bytes.
struct driver_data {
struct mv64xxx_i2c_regs reg_offsets;
};
struct driver_data *drv_data;
memcpy(drv_data->reg_offsets, reg_offsets, sizeof(drv_data->reg_offsets));
No need to write it each member as a separate assignment.
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