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Re: [PATCH 1/2] USB: serial: cp210x: Implement 16-bit register access functions

From Konstantin Shkolnyy <konstantin.shkolnyy@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/2] USB: serial: cp210x: Implement 16-bit register access functions
Date 2015-10-20 14:30 +0200
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:45 AM, Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 17:01 -0500, Konstantin Shkolnyy wrote:
[...]
>> +static int cp210x_read_u16_reg(struct usb_serial *serial, u8 req, u16 *pval)
>> +{
>> +     struct cp210x_serial_private *spriv = usb_get_serial_data(serial);
>> +     __le16 le16_value;
>
> 1. If you already get passed a pointer to a buffer, why use another
> buffer?

Because I want to preserve the caller's value in the case of an error.
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[PATCH 1/2] USB: serial: cp210x: Implement 16-bit register access functions Konstantin Shkolnyy <konstantin.shkolnyy@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 00:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] USB: serial: cp210x: Implement 16-bit register  access functions Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2015-10-20 08:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] USB: serial: cp210x: Implement 16-bit register access functions Konstantin Shkolnyy <konstantin.shkolnyy@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 14:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] USB: serial: cp210x: Implement 16-bit register  access functions Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> - 2015-10-20 09:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] USB: serial: cp210x: Implement 16-bit register access functions Konstantin Shkolnyy <konstantin.shkolnyy@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 15:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] USB: serial: cp210x: Implement 16-bit register  access functions Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> - 2015-10-20 15:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/2] USB: serial: cp210x: Implement 16-bit register access functions Konstantin Shkolnyy <konstantin.shkolnyy@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 16:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 1/2] USB: serial: cp210x: Implement 16-bit register  access functions Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> - 2015-10-20 18:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 1/2] USB: serial: cp210x: Implement 16-bit register access functions Konstantin Shkolnyy <konstantin.shkolnyy@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 19:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 1/2] USB: serial: cp210x: Implement 16-bit register access functions Konstantin Shkolnyy <konstantin.shkolnyy@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 19:50 +0200

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