Re: [PATCH] ASoC: Add max98088 CODEC driver

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Oct 13 2010 - 04:24:24 EST


On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 06:47:52PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 18:20 -0700, Peter Hsiang wrote:

> > +static struct {
> > + int readable;
> > + int writable;
> > + int vol;
> > +} max98088_access[M98088_REG_CNT] = {

> bool instead?

> static struct {
> bool readable;
> bool writable,
> bool vol;
> } etc...

The readable and writable fields are being used as bitmasks:

| + { 0x1F, 0x1F, 1 }, /* 03 battery voltage */

so this discards data which we may wish to use in future.

> readable isn't used anywhere, writeable is used as bool
> vol isn't a good name as it's easy to confuse with
> volume. Maybe volatile_register?

vol is traditionally used for this throughout the subsystem. It's
unfortuante that volatile is a keyword.
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